The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-05-13
GERMANY WANTS MUCH
IN CASE OF VICTORY
Berlin Official Says Nothing
Would Be Left to Allies
Would Ask Huge Indemnity.

Berlin, (by mail)-A picture Of Eu-
rope completely reorganized, with Ger
many and her allies dominating every
thing and levying upon their fallen
milliards of marks (33O, 900, 900, 900 to
$50. 000, 900, 0o0) Is drawn by Rudolph
Martin. former minister OF the interior,
OF Germany, In q pamphlet. entitled,
The World War and Its End" that has
just been issued.
The huge indemnity which the
author believes will be demanded by
Germany when she dictates peace
terms in London, after two years of
fighting, is estimated on the basis of
war costs Of 80 milliards OF marks, to
be sustained by Germany, Austria and
Turkey. in the proportion Of 16. 10 and
( respectively.
AS Germany at the end of the Franco
Prussian war made the French pay
two and one-half times what II cost
to conduct the conflict, 30, the writer
believes, Germany will make the allies
pay similarly at the end Of the pres
ent war. In addition, 75 milliards will
be demanded for he support of de-
pendents Of those killed.
The writer sees Germany firmly es-
tablished along the present French
coast. in a position to control both
London and Paris, and possessed of an
air fleet Of many thousands of machines
and 10000 alrmen. He 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 Dismembered.
Russia he pictures as completely dis
membered, its 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 dismember-
ment he predicts the organization OF
new states.
Sweden. the author believes, will re-
ceive Finland; Germany h Baltic
provinces and Poland: Austria will take
the entire south Of Russia, including
Kiev and odessa; Turkey will receive
the entire Caucasus, including the
government Of Saratow; Russia will
have to retire both from the Baltic. the
Black and the Caspian
Servia In to go to Austria Hungary;
Egypt to Turkey; q part OF Arabs to
Rumania, provided the latter allies IT.
self sincerely with Germany, Austria
and Turkey, and every other state
which similarly joins this group will
be properly rewarded.
Not only does Alsace-Lorraine remain
German, but Belfort is to join 1t once
moro as a German possession: Belgium
not only becomes German, along with
the Congo. but II to pay an indemnity
of 81 milliards Of francs within a few
years Of the close OF the
Regarding the disposition Of the 90
lonIal possessions Of the allies, the wri-
ter goes into little detail. beyond stipu'
lating that England and France must
lose Egypt, India, Algiers, Tunis and
Morocco. as penalty for inducing their
inhabitants to bear arms against Ger.
many.
susz Canal "a Turks.
The Suez canal the writer sees per-
manently in the hands of our ally
= Turkey" After the conclusion of peace
he hopes English ships, instead OF long
er paying tolls into the pocket of the
English owned Suez Canal company
will have to pay them to our ally Tur.
key"
The heavy indemnities proposed, the
writer frankly says are for the purpose
Of so weakening Germany's enemies
that 1t will be years before they can
rel contemplate val against her
again. They are supplemented by tax
alton and military system from pres.
ent Belgium to the new Russian Dor
der that will strengthen Germany in
definitely.
He would establish as one OF the
most important basic principles OF the
governments of the conquered prov.
inces that every young man who. &C
sa-ding 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 Erfurt, and
for the Frenchmen from Calais or Bel
fort, as well as the Belgian, service in
Bavaria or Wurtemburg. The garri-
sons in Poland, Frence and Belgium,
meanwhile, he believes should be made
up Of seasoned Prussian, Saxon or Ba-
varian troops.
With the historical example Of Lux
emburg as a precedent, the writer pre-
scribes that the taxation laws Of the
bmpire shall apply to the conquered
territory quite as much as the military
rules.