The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-27
GERMANY TO BE
 CUT INTO STRIPS IF ALLIES WIN
Man Who Wanted Munster. berg Fired From liar
 yard Gives His Views.

Vd4 u N4VO0 LILO 4CWNs | London, Oct. Eff the Allies win l the war, Germany will be so cut up 1 and divided by the victors that little | will be left of her. This was the dec- 1 laration to-day of Capt. Clarence Vie | ner, an American and a Harvard man, who is in close touch with high circles here. Captain Wiener took part in the South African war and attained his military title in the British volun- 1 teer forces. He comes from Phila- | delphia. Some time ago he attracted attention by announcing that he would revoke a bequest of $10,000,000 to | Harvard if Professor Muensterberg, a l member of the faculty, were not per- l mitted to continue his pro-German ar | ticles and speeches. Capt Wiener's statement is as follows:
 | "I have been asked what in my opin- ion would be the partition of territo- | ries at the end of this colossal world | wide war. Early in 1913 I predicted Ia vast struggle in Europe in the fol- | lowing year and gave the subject of 1 territorial results much close study. Roughly, said the war would last be- l tween three and four years and at the end Germany would be reduced to a I second rate power.
 l "I venture to believe that no neu- tral country which does not take part
 in the war will be allowed to have any 1 say in the partition. And this would appear to be only proper in view of the l sacrifice these nations have made in
 men and money and the very real risks 1 and actual losses they have sustained | Germany will lose all Alsace and
 Lorraine without doubt; further she Is apt to lose all the left bank of the River Rhine from the Swiss frontier
 to the south of Cobblence. This north line will run from that city west by southwest to a point on the north
 frontier of Luxemburg. Only in this
 way can France be assured of suffi-
 cienti and coal deposits for future arman :; also the Rhine will then
 be declared a waterway common to
 both nations.
 Belgium and Holland.
 Belgium will then take all the ter
 ritory north of this frontier up to
 where the Rhine enters the Nether- | lands.
 eff Holland decides to come in her self by allowing Anglo-F'rench troops
 to march on Berlin by way of Arn- helm, then she may we'll claim terri | tory to the west of the River Weser, that is. Oldenburg and part of Vest phalia. tr 'The Russians will certainly claim a part of West Prussia, including the winter port of bantzig. much of Po- sen and the rich mineral deposits of Silesia. England will. without doubt, destroy the islet of Heligolandi alto- gether and take all the Teutonic colo nies. Whether she gives back some of West Africa will depend solely upon the British ministry in office. X
 "Butsthese acquisitions will not be Germany's only losses; the conquering powers are very apt to insist upon Saxony, Bavaria and Wurtemburg be- coming independent principalities again. It would appeor that these southern German States would be far from loath to break away from Prus-, sia and once more be allowed to de- velop in their own efficient and peace able way.
 Austria to Lose Much.
 Austria is liable to lose even more of her heterogeneous terri tory. The time is now near when Hungary will secede from the dual al- liance; but, most probably, not even allowing the time specified in the agreement to elapse, this will be when the Russians cross her plains, the rich est granary in Europe and threaten Budapest.
 Then Austria will herself ask for a separate peace, but she will lose all Galicia and Bukomina, including stra- tegic positions on the Carpathians, and very possibly South Silesia, Morayia and Bohemia (which later may how ever, become independent) to the Rus- sians. She will lose the Trentino and 1stria to the Italians together with sev- eral strategic Islands on the Dalmation coast; also, she will of course, lose Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia.
 Even Hungary is sure to lose Tran sylvania to the Roumanians. So Aus tria will have soon become a second rate power, as well as Germany; she would have fared even worse had Ger many won.
 Turkey will lose her last posses sions in Europe; one can only trust that the grand coalition decides to make the Dardanelles a neutral way under the guardianship of equal strength; in Asia she will be fairly sure of losing her territoryJof old Ar menia to the. Russians, who will thus make the Black Sea their lake,
 "The Holy Land may be claimed in- ternationally; but, in any event, Eng land will probably take Syria for her own and much of fertile Mesopotamia. Finally, Bulgaria will feel the weight of the Serbians; the present dynasty, as with both Germany and Austria may well no longer be tolerated In any case she will be pretty sure to lose some of her River Danube frontage"