The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-04
Says U. 5. Prize Of
the Warning Nations

Paris, Oct. 15.-The subjoined curl
GUS communication written on thick
official looking folio paper without any
indication of it's origin has been deliv-
cred by messenger at the Office of the
Agency Havas, the principal news
agency in France:
1.-THE United States as the Prize for
Settlement Of the Present Eu-
ropean Conflict.
1T is stated on high authority that
suggestions have been made in the
diplomatic circles of European chan
celleries declaring that the easiest so
luton and the one most acceptable to
all the warning nations would be the
partition among them of the United
States of America. The United States
of America are most inviting prize
as compensation for the sacrifices rem
dered by these nations, and an az
rangement on the basis of the respec-
tive relations of the different nations
is surprisingly practicable.
80 far from being visionary
scheme for solution of this great
world conflict, the fact is only too ap-
parent that only small part of the
effort expended in the sanguinary
struggle, now raging, would have SUI
iced to satisfy all nations in their re-
spective ambitions.
"A noted diplomat declared his SUI
prise, that this idea of the partition OF
the United States had not emerged
sooner, because the land is so largely
made up of the constituency Of all
the warning nations. ..-s
'The tentative plan to satisfy thus
the national ambitions of the Euro
pean countries at war, instead of pro-
longing the internicene struggle, is
broadly outlined as follows: "
Great Britain is to occupy New
England, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. ..r.
France is to get the French parts
Of Eastern Canada and the states of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Az
kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Germany is to occupy the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa.
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Japan is to take the Pacific coast;
the state of Oregon, upper and lower
California. e
Mexico is to be compensated for
Lower California by ceding to it Arr
bona, New Mexico and part of Texas.
Russia will receive Alaska. .r-
THE Panama Canal will be declared
free, while the western states, North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas.
Oklahoma, Washington, Montana, Wy
oming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado, will
be consolidated into an imperial crown
domain of the German empire.
Though these 'satisfactions' are to
be acquired in a concerted campaign.
each of the several nations is to eff
feet the occupation of it's own allotted
! territory. ... j.. 49,.
Thus, it is claimed, would best be
met the rights and interests of the
different nations of old Europe, as it
would safeguard their nationals under
their respective flags. ".e- .- @
Whatever be said about this bold
solution it should be appreciated that
in many ways it is more feasible than
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 be
relegated to imaginative fiction, but
it is surely not stranger than the So
Der truth, and it might easily take its
for,,,