Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-18
WAR CHICKENS
ARE COUNTED BY
RUDOLPH MARTIN
Former German Cabinet Min
lister Has Even Figured Out
the Indemnity Allies Must
Pay to the Kaiser,
tAssociated Press Correspondence,

! Berlin March A picture of Eu-
I rope completely reorganized with
Germany and her allies dominating
everything ana levying upon their
fallen rivals a tribute OF from 100
I to $50 milliards of marks is drawn
/ by Rudolph Martin, former minister
of the interior of Germany. in a
pamphlet entitled THE World War
and Its End" that has just been is
sued.
The huge indemnity which the au-
1 thor believes will be demanded by
Germany when she dictates peace
terms in London. after two years
! fighting, is estimated on the basis
Of war costs OF 30 miliards of marks
! to be sustained by Germany. Austria
and Turkey, in the proportion OF 49,,
10 and 4 respectively
As Germany at the end Of the
Franco Prussian war made the
French pay two ana one-half times
what il cost to conduct the conflict,
so, the writer believes, Germany will
make the allies pay similarly at the
end of the present war In addition
IS millards will be demanded for
the support of dependents of those
killed.
Army of Airmcn.
The writer sees Germany firmly
established along the present French
coast in position TO control both
London and Paris, and possessed of
an air fleet of many thousands of
machines and 10000 airmen. lie
sees England forced to consent to the
construction of a tunnel under the
English channel equipped with four
railway tracks and an automobile
roadway, at both ends of which the
German forces are in control.
Russia, he pictures, as completely
dismembered, its territory divided up
among neighboring powers its Golfers
depleted to the point of bankruptcy
its menave TO the German empire
forever gone In the process Of dis
memberment he predicts the organ
ization of new states
Sweden. the author believes, will
receive Finland; Germany the Bal
tic provinces and Poland: Austria
viii take the entire south of Rus
sia, including Kiev ana Odessa; Tur-
key will receive the entire Caucasus,
including the government of Sara
tow; Russia will have to retire both
from the Baltic, the Black and the
Saspian seas
Austria Gets Serbia.
Serbia is to go to Austria Hungary;
Egypt to Turkey. part Of Arabia
to Rumania, provided the latter al
lies itself sincerely with Germany.
Austria and Turkey: and every other
state which similarly joins this group
VIII be properly rewarded
Not only does Alsace-L Lorraine re-
main German, but Belfort 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 61-4 miliards of
francs within few years of the close
OF the war
Regarding the disposition of the
colonial possessions Of the allies the
writer goes into little detail, beyond |
stipulating that England and France /
must lose Egypt, India, Algiers, Tu- I
mis- and Morocco as penalty for in I
ducing their inhabitants TO bear
arms against Germany.
Sucz Canal for Turkey.
The SueZ canal the writer sees per- |
manently in the hands of "our ally, |
Turkey" After the conclusion of /
peace, he hopes English ships, in
stead Of longer paying tolls into the /
pocket of the English-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 Germanys /
enemies that it will be years before /
they can even contemplate war
against her again. They are sup
plemented by a taxation and military .
system from present Belgium to the
new Russian border that Will
strengthen Germany indefinitely
Though Germany's territory Will |
he greatly increased in Europe, it |
must be laid down as a basic prin
ciple, in the writer's opinion, that the
electorate eligible to choose the
of the controlling reich
stag 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 a king
dom and govern themselves The
acquired Baltic provinces, as well as
the territory taken from France,
can. he thinks. without harm have
their own parliaments, and live un-
der the direction Of an imperial gov
ernor general.
He would establish as one of the
most important basic principles of
the governments 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 in the army,
For the Pole he suggests service in