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lomat. says that Kaiser Wilhelm had
this scheme since the beginning of the
war. In Mons last autumn Minister Of
War Falkenhayn delivered a lecture
on the subject in Kaiser Wilhelms
presence. Falkenhayn developed the
buffer state theory. He proclaimed
that Germany's strategical safety de-
manded an independent Poland and
predicted that an independent Poland
would be anti-Russian, as the Poles
are Catholics and have more in com
mon with central and west Europe than
with Russia.
A reconstructed Poland. alkenhayn
added. would in itself be too small to
make an effective buffer state. There
fore, with the new Poland should be
united all Lithuania and the Ukraine.
This would be reconstruction not of
clinical Poland. but of historical Po-
land. which was nationally compos-
lite state stretching from the Baltic to
the Black sea and embracing the great
er part of the Ukraine.
Russia, said Falkenhayn, would per-
sistently aspire to recover what she
had lost and this would bring her into
opposition with the seventh great
power. The seventh great power would
be too weak to resist Russia and would
be compelled to lean on Germany and
Austria Hungary. The new state would
be an effective buttress. "A Russian
it's force on the buffer states fortified
frontier and long before the buffer
state was crushed by Russia's over
whelming might Germany would have
dealt with her foes in west Europe and
would be free to tackle Russia
Michailis. as result of visits to Ber-
lin. knows that Kaiser Wilhelm has
embraced this plan. The plan is all
the more popular because careful
pat oil 10
tally afraid Of the problems which
wholesale annexations would bring to
Germany. Germany's whole strategy
during the past weeks has been die
tated by the plan. Kaiser Wilhelms
original plan was to take Warsaw and
the Narew fortresses. make them into
a strong fortified line, make no further
against France and England II the
German armies succeeded in entering
Paris. that. reasoned the strategists,
would end the war.
Now the plan is changed. After the
Vistula was taken began an am
bilious march against the Bug. and
even east of the Bug. and Kaiser Will
helm is now committed to conquering
all East Poland. all Lithuania. the
greater part of the Baltic provinces.
White Russia, the Red Russian prov
ince of Volhynia and probably the
Ukraine and Bessarabia. This is an
area as big as any European state ex-
cept Russia herself. All of it except
the Baltic provinces. and perhaps
Bessarabia. would go-if Kaiser Will
helms plans succeed-to make up
Europe's seventh great power.
Germany's plan is to occupy even
more territory than this, as only by
offering to give back some of the oc-
cupied territory can she hope to induce
Russia to make peace. Probably Hin
denburg's group of armies will strike
at Smolensk. which is only fort
nights march from Svinsk. near which
the extreme left wing now stands. II
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this succeeds. and if Russia cannot re-
cover the territory in battle, the puHer
state will be a genuine great power
both in territory and population. It's
strength against Russia will be all the
greater, because it will contain all
Russia's great manufacturing cities
except Petrograd. Moscow and Char
chow, II will embrace Lodz. Warsaw,
Riga. Libau Sieiostock. Wilma, Eka-
terinoslaw. Odessa, which concentrate
three quarters of Russia's Industrial
production.
Kaiser Wilhelm sees that this would
enormously weaken Russia in a mill
tary, sense, as the war shows every day
that, next to men, industrial efficiency
counts most Russia" says Michailis.
would be transformed into semi,
Asiatic, agricultural state, isolated
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along the east side of the crack were
the commands of Scammon and Rod
man. You pass on down the hill and
your road runs along and close to the
bank of the creek. with a high ridge
rising on the right hand. Here the
creek, which is about half again as
wide as Rock creek at Pierce mill, but
apparently deep and at times very
swift. flows between steep banks and
through u narrow valley between high
ridges. in most places closely wooded.
Ahead of you may be seen the stone
bridge by which your road crosses the
creek. but before YOU come to the
bridge you must read the Inscriptions on
number of monuments that are clus-
tered here. On the crest of the ridge
is fine monument to the 18th Con-
necticut Infantry, Col. Henry W. Kings
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known by all the people in that region
as the Frog Hollow road.
If you should keep to that road and
travel west for mile beyond the lit
tie houses that have grouped them
selves along the way you would come
to the village of Antietam, at the point
where Antietam creek flows into the
Potomac river. But the village of An
the battle of Antietam. it being about
four miles south of Sharpsburg and
considerably south of the southern
limit of the fighting ground. So. in
stead of going by way of the village
of Antietam, you turn sharply to the
right, or to the north, after passing
Frog Hollow. A wooded mountain rises
on the right of the road. 1t is called
travel from Frog Hollow brings you to
the crossing of Sharman's branch, which
rises in Elk Ridge and runs into An
tietam creek about half way between
the Potomac and the southern end of
the battlefield.
Climbing out of the vale through
which Sharman's branch runs. another
mile brings you to a little schoolhouse,
where the road forks. The left fork is
the one to follow. 1t leads down long
and steep hill to small spring branch.
The Rambler paused here because he
knew that on climbing the hill on the
northerly side of this brook he would
come upon the fighting ground of An
the deep vale of this brook before max
ing that series of assaults to gain pos
session of the lower bridge over An
tietam creek. the crossing which is now
spanned by handsome memorial
bridge called the Burnside bridge, for
this southerly part of the battlefield
was the ground covered by Burnside's
Corps. the Federal left wing.
Continuing on your way and climbing
the HILL you come. on reaching the high
land. upon a monument. 1t stands by
the roadside in small square plot, on
three sides of which tall corn is grow
ing. The clay bank of the roadside has
been supplanted by low stone wall.
A big locust tree throws it's shadow on
this monument. 1t is the first of the
battle monuments you will see on en-
tering the battlefield from the south on
the east side of the creek. The inscrip-
ton on the monument is this: Ohio
First Battery Light Artillery-Com-
manded by Capt James r. McMulLen-
Hugh Ewing's Ist) Brigade-Kanawha
Division-9th Army Corps-Army of
the Potomac
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sian territory. To save herself Russia
must then abandon altogether her
Polish, Lithuanian and Little Russian
territory. That makes the kaisers plan
a bit risky. Some of Kaiser Wilhelms
advisers think it would be better to
march on Paris But the kaiser is keen
on the buffer state. If he wins the
seventh great European power may,
year hence, have an ambassador at
Washington.
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bury. The inscription tells that the
regiment opened the engagement in
this part of the field and that Col.
kingsbury fell mortally wounded few
feet from the spot on which the monu-
ment stands.
By the side of the road where it runs
along the creek is tablet which tells
that in that part of the field was
Nagle's Brigade. of Sturgis Division
of the 9Th Army Corps. Brig. Gen.
James Nag1e commanding. The regi-
ments. in that brigade We're the I'd
Maryland, 9th and 9Th New Hampshire
and the 4Sth Pennsylvania volunteer
infantry. The tablet says
AT daylight the 18th of September Maggie $
Brigade was half mile northeast of this Iolnt
and moved to the south ut 10 am, formed for
an assault the bridge and took position in an
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from Europe, as she was by Poland in
the middle ages. Kaiser Wilhelm sees
that such Russia could never again
play role in Europe proper"
X
:. i.
Kaiser Wilhelms plan is that the new
seventh great power should be nationally
composite state similar to Austria
Hungary. 1T would not be SO torn by
race contrasts, for nearly all the in
habitants would belong to one or another
Slav branch. 1t would contain no Great
Russians. In Europe the Great Russians
number about 100000 out of 10000
600. In the west of the empire. the raw
material for the buffer state, there are
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no Great Russians. except officials and
few colonists. In the north Of the buffer
state territory are Lithuanians. in the
center and west. Poles; to the east of the
Poles, White Russians, and in the south
east. Ukrainians. whom the Great Rus
slams call Little Russians. The Poles and
Iithuanians are Catholics: the White
Russians and the Little Russians are
Greek orthodox. Once all this land was
Polish
Today. outside Poland proper. the land
owners and many OF the townspeopie are
Poles. In wilma. Lithuania's capital, and
i'll kieff, Little Russia's capital. the Polish
language is heard. Kieff has least of all
the Polish character; 1t was once the CAPT.
tai of Russian principally. and where
rot Russian it is today Little Russian and
Jewish. But there are Catholic Poles
scattered all over Kieff province. and Kieff
is not a truly Russian town.
Austrias Philopolish enthusiasts,
whose headquarters Is Cracow, hold
that all this territory is Polish. and
they aim at the reconstruction of his
toric Poland, with the Polish nation
atty supreme. There would be 12.000,
600 Poles by race, about 22.000.0o0 Lit
tie Russians and 100000 in Lithuania
and the parts of White Russia which
would be included in the new state.
This. even If Austrian Galicia were left
out, would give the buffer state a pop
ulation of 40,000.000, which is equal to
the population of France and well
weakest great power. The Philopolish
plan has no chance of being adopted by
Germany'S StrategiStS.
Kaiser Wilhelm knows that it is not
possible nowadays for 100000 Poles
to rule and to Polonize twice the num-
Der of Little Russians and Lithuanians.
A buffer state built on that principle
would fall to bits; the non-Polish pop
ulation in protest against Polarization
would gravitate back toward Russia.
~ NJ IN &c
have strongly developed national in
stincts and considerable national lit
eratures.
Germany's plan is to create a dualis-
tic federal state with all races equal
and no national supremacy for any. To
emphasize this a new state capital city
would be built on a neutral ID. c.
somewhere near the linguistic from
tiers of Poland. Lithuania and Little
Russia. The three races would govern
themselves separately, as Austrians and
Hungarians do, and they would COM
bine only for common defense and
common diplomacy. The seventh great
power would be independent Germany
and Austria would make a joint decla
ration of Monroe Doctrine" character
that they would not allow it to enter
into alliance with Russia. Short of
that. the buffer state could do as it
liked.
Kaiser Wilhelm's dream is to bring
into his scheme Rumania, which is
ruled by a Hohenzollern prince. So far
Rumania has vacillated; before Rus
sia's defeat in Poland she showed
strong signs of joining the entente
grup. She wants both Austrian
Pennsylvania and Russian Bessarab ia.
Germany thinks she may gain Ru-
mania's support. Kaiser Wilhelm's plan
is to compensate Rumania by giving
her Bessarabia as far as the Dniester.
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IL is TO be a genuine great power, oc-
copying all of east-central Europe,
and separating forever Germany and
Austria from Russia's threatening
might. This plan is being brought out by
Kaiser Wilhelm, by Imperial Chancellor
Bethmann-Hollweg and by War Min
lister Falkenhayn on the basis OF the
Austro- German victories in Poland and
'.ithuania.
England's former premier, the Mar
quis OF Salisbury. first had the notion
that a seventh great power in Europe
would violate heavens decree. He told
the students of Oxford that Europe 8
division into a dual alliance of France
and Russia and a triple alliance of
Germany, Austria and Italy was prov
Identially ordained. WI nat asked
"A student, would happen If, in addi-
ton to these FIVE great powers and
England the sixth. a new seventh pow
er came into existence? providence,
retorted Salisbury. did not make a
seventh great power and does not in
tend to-"
Kaiser Wilhelm believes he has the
physical means of converting Provi-
dence TO his standpoint Just now
Germany holds all Poland. nearly all
Iithuania, great part OF the Baltic
provinces and a fringe of Red Russia.
AS she also holds Belgium and the
richest part of France. no one can
accuse the kaiser of presumption.
Kaiser wilhelm is an optimist about
the immediate future. but he Is a
pessimist about the remote future. He
knows that IL Russia cannot win now,
she may win couple of generations
hence Her OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by three
millions a year and her rate OF IN
crease is well kept up.
Germany's birth rate since the war OF
1870 has fallen from 45 TO so per 1000.
Russia may get over her present trouble.
which is that owing to industrial and edu-
cationaI backwardness she cannot make
use of her population advantage. In fifty
years Russia will have 300.0 900 citi-
zens and Germany will have only 1907
100000. II Russian governmental methods
improve and reach the German standard
Russia will be able to crush Germany like
an egg Out of this ugly future springs
Kaiser Wilhelms idea of a big and popu-
lous buffer state between Germany and
Russia. which buffer state will be
Europes seventh great power
Kaiser wihelm's seventh great power
plan solves for Germans. who are conf
dent OF victory. the hard problem of how
10 draw profit from victory. Germany is
divided into two well defined parties, the
annexfonists and the anti-anneXiop-
lists. The annexionists preach that Ger
many must take as much OF her terri
torial conquests she force the
enemy to yield, In particular. they want
more or less of Belgium, part Of the
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French mining district. the Dombrowska
coal region in southwest Poland, the in
dustrial Polish center. Lodz. and the Bal
tic provinces as far as Riga.
The annexionists are largely an eco
nomic party. and are strongest among the
national liberals. A national liberal con-
gress has declared by a vote of all with
TWO exceptions for annexion. Reichstag
Leader Bassermann is strongly for an
neNion. The annexionists know that
Chancellor Bethmann- Hollweg is against
wholesale annexon. and the annex
ionsst movement takes an anti Bethmann-
Hollweg coloring- 1t further takes an
anti-kaiser coloring
Behind Kaiser Wilhelm and Beth
mann Hollweg stand the anti-annex-
ionists, whose chief leader is ex-Colo-
NAL Secretary Dernburg These are not
against all annexion, but they would
limit annexion to narrow strips or iso-
lated fortresses which would strength
en- Germanys position. They would
swallow the Dombrowska coal region
because II lies on the existing German
Russian frontier. But they do not want
Lodz, which is far in in Poland, and
they do not want Belgian or French
territory. Kaiser Wilhelm does not
want Lodz, because Lodz would present
him with the unruliest socialists in all
Europe. The anti-annexionists say that
a new population of Poles, Frenchmen
and Belgians would weaken Germany's
character an essentially national
state. Kaiser Wilhelm and Bethmann-
HollweS here agree. They want to get
all they can, but do not want to get
hurt in the process.
Kaiser Wilhelms one great anneXa-
ton plan is said to be in the northeast.
He wants to take Russia's Baltic
provinces. including Libau and Riga and
the country south as far as the Dvinsk.
including Dorpat, with its once German
university. Also Germany would like to
stretch herself along the Baltic as far
as Reval. All this country has German
links: the landowners and bourbeoisie
are the posterity of the Teusonic
knights. and the peasants and workmen
are Let's and Ests. Who hate Germans, but
are Lutherans by religion and might be
assimilated. RevaI, in German hands,
would be a perpetual threat to Petro-
grad. 1t would give Admiral Won Tirpitz
command over the Gulf of FINLAND.
Falgenhayn, Germany's best political
strategist, stands strongly for this plan.
The possession of the Baltic provinces
would retain to Germany the outfiank-
ing position toward Russia, which she
used during the war to such advan-
tage.
x
Up to now East Prussia outfianked
Russia in Poland and made dangerous
any Russian attempt to advance west.
II Russia is pushed out of Poland, and
germany III tue Hortn does not transfer
her frontier east of her present East
Prussian frontier. Germany after peace
would no longer outflank Russia. II
Germany takes the greater part of the
Baltic provinces she would continue to
out6ank Russia, and in future war
she would present to Russian army
marching west the same peril as she
has presented in the present war. III
this annexation is combined with Kaiser
Wilhelm's buffer state notion Ger
many's security against a retaliation
Anthem Micha jiis refired Danish din.
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men who fell on the Antietam and
nearby fields. and who. from the rude
graves where they were first given
sepulchre. were removed between Oc-
United States Burial Corps and laid to
rest in this holy ground. one of the
most beautiful of the cemeteries under
the charge of the quartermaster's de-
partment of the army. In this ceme-
terry you may rest on the rostrum of
brick pillars looped with vines, where
memorial exercises are held and where
on Memorial day, 1885, Gen. Mcclellan
spoke before a large assembly of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Rambler knew these Antietam
fields in other years. but he spent a
happy time of reveries there last Sun
day, though to reach these fields meant
walk of twelve hilly miles and the
return from them over another road
meant walk of about the same num-
Der of miles. with more and sleeper
hills. And to cover the Antietam fields
requires several miles of travel after
you have come upon them. 1t may be
easier for you to follow the story than
to follow the road on foot. However.
great many Washington people go
to Antietam by auto and some by train
and bus, for Antietam is one of the
batt1ef1elds close to Washington and
closely associated with the life story
of the capital
The Rambler made his start from
by the big narrow bridge which used
to be the railroad bridge, but for
good many years a toll bridge. Turn
ing up the left bank of the Potomac,
the road runs between the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal and the base of Mary
land Heights, until after about a mile
of travel you turn to the right and
follow shady road. which climbs
long steep hill and brings you to the
hamlet of Pleasantville. 1t was along
this road that the Rambler passed two
weeks ago on his way to revisit the
farm on which John Brown gathered
his men. The Rambler followed this
road not far north as the John
Brown farm. but to Samples Manor
Church. and there turned into a road
leading through high hills and bearing
to the west.
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1t is picturesque way and because
of it's difficulties is very little used ex-
cepting by the people who live along it,
You cross many streams that pour
down from the mountains and after
about eight miles of travel you come
upon a number of houses that fringe
the roadside. the road here passing
through a low and moist vale. The
name of this place as given by one of
the settlers is Frog Hollow, and the
road over which the Rambler passed is
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pecisl Correspondence of The Star.

BERLIN. September II, 1915.
AISER WILHELM is resolved
to violate Providence's decree
by presenting Europe with a
new, a seventh, great power.
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This battery was three-quarters of a
mile southeast of Burnside bridge. and
on its right were the guns of Cook,
Muhlenberg, Benjamin and Simmonds
quarter of a mile in front of the guns
Of McMullen and Cook and on lowland
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Mcnt.
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Pleading not guilty and requesting
that he be given hearing, J. E. John
son, proprietor of the Clearwater no.
tel at Bagley. MIMI, was arraigned be.
fore Judge Hiram A. Simons, United
States commissioner charged with
having introduced Intoxicating liquor
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into ceded territory contrary to tho
provisions Of the Indian treaty of Feb
%. 1855. Judge Simons placed the
bonds OF johnson at $500 and &C.
copied g. p. Jones and John ]. Strait
lin. both Of Bagley, as bondsmen. The
case was continued until March Z.
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complete list Of the Inherited Noncompeent Indian Lands
for sale Standing Rock Reservation published every week in the
SIOUX COUNTY PIONEER Of IT Yates N D. The subscnton
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