Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-26
UNITED STATES
PRIZE AS END
TO CONFLICT
CURIOUS COMMUNICATION is FOUND
WHICH DISP0SES OF ALL AMER
ICAN STATES TO POWERS.
IT SUGGESTS THAT SOLUTION OF
TROUBLE WOULD Be PARTITION
OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paris. Oct. 26-The subjoincl curious
communication written on thick official
looking folio paper without any indica-
ton OF it, origin has been delivered by
message ~ the office Of the .Aecncc Ha-
vas. the principal news agency in
France:
THE UNITED STATES A. THE
PRIZE FOR SETTLEMENT or THE
PRESENT EUROPEAN CONFLICTS
1T is stated on high authority that
suggestions have been made in the dip
lomatic circles of European chancellor
les 4" -laring that the easiest solution
and the one most acceptable Ia all the
warning nations would bc the partition
them of the United States of
America. The United States Of America
are a most i~n,itin. prize AZ compcnsa-
tion for the sacrifices rendered nv these
nations. and an arrangement on the ba-
SIS If the respective relations of the diff
fercnt naii"n~ j. ~nrpri in" practic-
able.
So far ron being i visionary scheme
for "a solution of this great world ON
fict. the fact is only too apparent that
only i small part III the effort expended
in the SanguinarN struggle. now raging.
would have suniced To satisfy ~ M
tlonS IN their respective ambitions.
"A noted diplomat declared his sur
prise that this idea Of the partition nf
the United States had not emerged .
er. because the land is 81 largely made
up of the constituency Of all the warning
nations.
The tentative plan to satisfy thus the
national ambitions nf the European
countries al war. instead If p%roloncing
the internicenc struggle. il broadly out
lined as follows:
Great Britain j. 10 occupy New
England. Maryland. Virginia. North
and South Carolina. Georgia and Flori-
da.
France j. 10 Get the French parts Of
Eastern Canada and the states of Louis
lana. Mississippi. Alabama. Arkansas.
Tennessee AMI Kentucky.
Germany is to occupy the states of
New York. Pennsylvania. Ohio. India
ma. Michigan. Illinois. Missouri. Iowa.
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Japan is To take the Pacific coast;
the state Of Oregon, Upper and Lower
California.
Mexico i to be- compensated for
Lower California by ccding to ii Ari-
IONA. New Mexico and part Of Texas.
Russia will receive Alaska.
The Panama Canal will he declared
free. whilst the Western states. North
aud South Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas.
Oklahoma. Washington. Montana. Wv
oming. Idaho. Utah. and Colorado will
he consolidated into an imperial crown
DOMAIN Of the German Empire.
Though these 'SatiSfactions' are t.
he acquired IN a concerted campaign.
each of the several nations is To effect
The occupation Of its own allotted terri
tory.
This. il i claimed. would best he met
me rights and interests Of the dirercnt
nations Of old Europe. "a ii would safe
guard their nationals under their re-
>pcctive flags.
Whatever he said about this bold 80
luton II should be appreciated that i'm
MANY ways u i more feasible than the
three successive partitions Of Poland.
which nevertheless are historic facts
Truth Is sometimes stranger than
fiction. This alleged tentative under
standing of the powers at war may he
~relegated Ia imaginative fiction Int IL
= surely not stranger than the sober
truth, and 1t might easily take its form
Molly Elliot S~eawell. famous yirc;p;a
anihoresS, SIS years old today.