El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-19
CAPTVES
To END WAR SAYS
GERMAN WRITER.
Thinks Allies Would Quick
ly Sue For Peace to Stop
the Starvation Plan.
WOULD SEND CAPTIVE
PEOPLES TO GERMANY
nan III NnRGRONE COX.

1.-THE HAGUE. Holland. feD- -
Here is one way to end the war.
= First. let Germany confiscate all
Belgian land now in its occupation and
send all the Gispossessed landowners to
the center Of Germany and Austria, in
staIling German people in their places.
Second. let Germany take possession
OF all mines, railways, factories, banks.
etc. i'm the occupied territories. Third,
let the inhabitants of the occupied ter
ritories be subjected TO starvation.
That would arouse such a world cry
for peace in the lands Of the entente
powers that their governments would
be compelled to sue for peace.
Such. at least, is the conclusion Of
Herr Rudolf Keller. the editor Of the
Prague Tageblatt." He expounds and
details Of his scheme in a series Of five
articles which recently appeared in his
journal.
strikes Note Of Brute Force.
Herr Keller strikes the note of brute
force, naked and unaShamed IN ms very
first sentences:
Imperial chancellor Behmann- HolI-
veg has said that Germany has aDan-
doned all feeling Of sentimentality.
j that is so Germany has not made il
sufficiently apparent and that is Just
what Germany must do.
Experience in A1saee- Lorraine ard
Schleswig- Holstein has shown that n
the central powers would achieve, as
the chancellor said they must, frontiers
which would protect them from attack
in the future. they must drive out the
entire population from the occupied
territories and replace the present IN
habitants with Germans
That would be the work of months"
Herr Keller truly remarks and he goes
on TO urge "a beginning should be
made at once today. There is no time
to lose It is possible now After
peace it would be no longer possible.
Let us confront our enemies with an
accomplished fact.
Says Allies started IL.
"Why should we shrink from such an
undertaking? our enemies are trying
to starve us. They spare neither grey
hairs. women nor children The world
at large has been turned against us BY
a lying press. Even America has stood
by while the cruel measures Of starva-
ton have been concOcted. Reprisals are
necessary Russia stripped Poland OF
all supplies and left the Poles to
starve or depend on German good VIII.
Let us apply TO Belgium and North
ern France the methods of Russia Let
all food supplies be withdrawn. or
course in the beginning there WOuid ne
much shouting and screaming about
German barbariSm, nut our enemies
would soon realize that they could not
leave millions to the pangs of hunger
and they would sue for peace. Per-
haps we should not be far wrong to
suggest that thew would welcome the
chance of submitting to what they
would call German narbarism and thus
escape submitting to military neces-
sity.
Moreover. how differently our pient-
potentiaries would be able to go to the
peace conference if they could confront
our foes With a GermaniZed Belgium
and Northern France. There is another
question which this action would tend
TO solve when peace cOmes-ten mil
lions of warriors. many OF them
manned, Will return to civilian LIE.
Where viii work be found for them il
they do not lay their hands on the
mines of Belgium and the iron centers
of Northern France?
Notwithstanding our victories over
Russia and France the war is stlll TAR
from coming to an end. fortunately
our military successes have prevented
the enemies from laying waste TO our
countries. but our enemies IN throwing
themselves upon the civilians showed
a keener perception of the real ma
ture Of the struggle. We must realize
the principles hidden in the attack on
the central powers.
Probably starvation would not De
required A short time OF restricted
diet would be sufficient to arouse an
urgent demand for peace