Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-17
,.ssoo;,tsa Press Correspondence

and Ieyying upon their Aalei'
tribute of from 20 to $50 miiiaros u
marks. is drawn by Rudolph Mar'ih'
former minister of the interior OF Ger
many. In a pamphlet entitled Inc
world War and Its End" that has JUST
been issued.
| The huge, indemnity which the author
believes will be demanded by Germany
yben she dictates peace terms in Lon
! don after two years fighting. Is esti-
| waited on the basis of war costs or ~
billiards of marks to be sustained by
/ germany. Austria and Turkey. in the
proportion of 1s, 10 and respectively.
AS Germany at the end Of the Franco
Prussian War made the French pay TWO
and one half times what 1t cost TO con-
duct the conflict, so, the writer peHeVes'
Germany will make the Allies pay SIM
ilarly at the end of the present war IN
addition rs milliards will be demanded
for the support Of dependents Of those
killed.
The writer sees Germany firmly estao-
lished along the present French coast,
in a position to control both London ana
Paris, and possessed Of an air fleet OF
many thousands of machines and D'"o
airmen. He sees England forced to con-
sent to the construction of tunnel I'M
der the English channel, equipped with
! four railway tracks and an automobile
roadway, at both ends of which the Ger
man forces are in control.
| Russia he pictures as completely dis
membered, it's territory divided up
among neighboring powers, its Golfers
depleted TO the point of bankruptcy, ITS
menace to the German empire forever
gone In the process of dismembermenr
he predicts the organization OF new
states.
/ Sweden, the author believes. will re-
ceive Finland; Germany the Baltic prov
! inces and Poland; Austria will take the
entire south of Russia, including kleV
and Odessa; Turkey will receive the en-
| tire Caucasus, including the govern
| ment of Saratow: Russia will nave 10
retire both from the Baltic, the Black
and the Caspian Seas.
| Serbia is to go to Austria
Egypt to Turkey; a part OF Arabia to
! Roumania, provided the latter allies it
! self sincerely with Germany, Austria
and Turkey; and every state which SIM
rilarly joins this group will be properly
| rewarded.
| Not only does Alsace-Lorraine remain
German, but Be!fort is to join it once
more as a German possession. Belgium
not only becomes German, along with
the Congo, but is to pay an indemnity
| of Ii inilliards of francs within few
years OF the close Of the war.
| Regarding the disposition of the colon
! ial possessions of the allies the writer
goes INTO little detail. beyond stipuIat
| ing that England ard France must lose
Egypt, India, -Algiers, Tunis and Moroc-
, co as penalty for inducing their inhab-
| itants to bear arms against Germany.
| The Suez Canal the writer sees perma-
nently in the hands of Our ally, Tur-
key" After the conclusion of peace. he
hopes, English ships, instead Of longer
! paying tolls into the pocket Of the Eng
| lsh, owned Suez Canal Company. Will
have to pay them to our ally, Turkey.
| The heavy indemnities proposed the
writer frankly says are for the purpose
! of so weakening Germany's enemies that
! it will be years before they can even
contemplate war against her again
Thev are supplemented by a taxation
and military system from present Bel
gum to the new Russian border that
will strengthen Germany indefinitely.
Though Germany's territory will be
greatly increased in Europe. it must be
laid down as a basic principle, in the
! writer's opinion, that the electorate elgi-
BILE 10 choose the membership OF the
/ controlling Reichstag must be confined
to. the old boundaries.
| Newly acquired Russian Poland, with
| its own legislature in Warsaw, may
! perhaps become an adjunct kingdom
with Prince August William of Prussia
as Ruler. The Belgians. he believes,
may also form kingdom and govern
! themselves. The acquired Baltic prov
I inces, as well as the territory taken
from France, can, ne thinks, without
harm have their own parliaments, and
live under the direction of an imperial
| governor general.
| He would establish as one of the most
! important basic principles Of the govern
ments OF the conquered provinces that
! every young man who according to the
rules laid down in the German empire
is capable of bearing arms shall serve
j in the army. For the Pole ne suggests
| service in Erfurt, and for the French
men from Calais or Belfort. as we'll as
| tIIe bSiSldr, service IN bavaria or w uFt
emburg. The garrisons in Poland
France and Belgium meanwhile, he be-
| lieves should be made up of seasoned
Prussian. Saxon or Bavarian troops
| With the historical example of Lux
emburg as precedent, the writer pre-
scribes that the taxation laws of the EN-.
pire shall apply to the conquered terri
| tory quite as much as the military
| rules.
Early in his pamphlet the writer
voices the expression that England
must be invaded and London conquered
| before the Germans can have been con-
sidered winners and masters of the sit
| uation. No occupation of Paris or of
! Moscow alone can accomplish this end.
Both the latter he considers only mat
| tiers Of time, that of the Russian city
especially being feasible because OF Rus
slams alleged precarious financial con-
dition. With the Turks working north
| ward and the Austrians advancing
steadily he believes Russia's doom to be
sealed. In the country's dismember-
ment. he declares that no weakness
should reign, no pettiness should show
itself. In must be accomplished resist
lessly.
For Germany and her allies" he says,
lit is of the greatest importance that