Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-15
ANNEXATION TOPIC
OF GERMAN PRESS
Territory to Be Taken Over at
End of War Is Dis
missed.
VIEWS OF HANS DELBRUECK
Favors Selling Poland and Baltic
Provinces After Russia
Is Beaten.

BERLIN. October 14.-Press and pub-
lie here both are discussing what terri
tories Germany shall annex when she
has won tho war.
Professor Hans Delbrueck, after
MaXimilian Harden. Gcrmany's most
prominent publicist, says in Der Tag
that II 1t came to the worst. Germany
might have to offer Il favorable peace
10 one OF her great enemies in order
to crush the others. and II things
really should come to such PASS.
there was not the slightest doubt in
his mind that Germany should come to
terms with France and then, after
beating Russia. annex Poland and the
Baltic provinces
Against this idea protest is made
by Ludwig Won Haldwitt in the Rhine
Westphalian Gazette. one of the group
of papers owned by the Krupps.
Speaking in the name OF Pan-Ger-
mania. Herr Won Haldwitt says that to
annex Poland and the Baltic provinces
would be detrimental to the interests
OF the German empire. He says:
Germany would find densely popu-
lated country. in which Germans would
find II difficult to settle. while IL ter
ritories were annexed from France. the
people would leave their homes en-
mass rather than live under German
rule. French land would therefore
make an excellent German European
colony. In which Germany's surplus
population might settle down com
fortably."
lie continues:
Poland consists almost exclusively
OF agricultural land. of which Germany
has no need at present. while the
French districts to be annexed are i'm
mensely rich in coal and form n nat
ural extension of the Rhine coal fields"
1t is this kind OF land which Germany
needs. he declares. and Immediately
afterward he adds:
III Germany can lay her hands per-
manently on the great French coal
districts. she can in future wars resist
far more effectively than she has done
this time"
WOULD PUSH FRONTIERS
FURTHER EASTWARD
= Tho Socialist lead or. Hacnisch, says
in the Norwacrts:
~ in regard. to tanneShtfons. per-
sonally have never concealed the fact
that ] think IL woulI he OF great bene-
larly to tho German .prolctariat. to
push our frontiers further eastward
at any rate. to the line OF the Narew
1T appears to me no less dcsrahl
to get material guarantees to prevent
Hclgium becoming an English port OF
entry into Central Europe, as she has
been In the past
no ono has any right To conceal
Uhnf bn i,lf in,
time like tho present This is why I
declare catcEorically that the war aims
Of the Social Democrats are about the
same as those OF the Chancellor. as
indicated in his famous declaration of
Dccemhcr. say this well aware that
may hc called an imperialistic So
cialist. because know the great dan
gers that threaten Germany, and be-
cause there is only ono thing TO do:
for tho German people TO back up our
leaders. no, only from a military view
point, hu; also politically. and 10 fight
until We have secured IL peace hirh
gives Gcrmany all necessary rIaran-
toes against :: return OF the dangers to
which sh" now is exposed.
our principal enemies arc not the
theoretical ;rnncxationists In this coun-
try. for precautions already have been
taken to insure that these extremists
will not become too dangerous. Those
who arc most dangerous TO us are the
practical aIncXationists in enemy
countries who unite all their strength
to ruin Germany politically and y
nomiraily II is tho latter. not the
ormcr. who arc the greatest obstacles
in the way of the carly peace we all
wish for"