The Washington herald., 1916-01-19
Peace Will Come from the East,
Says Noted Leader Of Chauvinists
Pan-Germans Renounce Hope Of Annexation in West
Suez Canal Point Where British Can Be Pressed.
Belgium and Poland Not Important

bach, but we begin to see from which
direction peace will come. We may
expect IL from the East.
1T is clear that the French and
British cannot hope to break through
our lines In the West, as the Russians
and that the Italians cannot prevail
over the Austrians on their frontier.
We, on the other hand, can count ON
undertaking. by way of Bulgaria and
Constantinople, an advance through
Asia Minor. Syria and Palestine, to
Egypt, there to force the British to
terms.
when the German-Turkish expedition,
well prepared, sets out toward Egypt,
then the British have no means to hold
1t up; they can only await it at the
Suez Canal. II they set up their lines
of defense before the canal. then that
will be, with the canal at their backs,
extremely dangerous. II they draw be-
hind the canal, then they cannot pre-
vent their enemy from hindering the
passage of any ship by means OF his
heavy artillery.
Importance of Egypt.
Egypt is so important to the British,
because il assures to them the posses
sion of the canal, and thus the way to
s0o, 10000 of people in East Africa
India, China, and Japan. II the Turkish
cannon close the canal, the old con-
nections with those 900,0O0,0o0 people are
as good as broken.
Leaving the war out of consideration
a moment. we may compare the position
Of Germany with that of her great op-
ponents and competitors, Britain, Russia
and the United States. We may, regard
the United States as our enemies, for
what they are doing now cannot be much
distinguished from what they would
do II they had openly declared war on
US. These opponents are the greatest
world powers, so far as extent OF ter
ritory and numbers of population are
concerned. Confronting them stands
Germany, with fixed boundaries within
the heart of Europe, and without abil-
ity to expand there. Today 1t is pos
sible to feed our people, almost cut off,
but we shall not be able to do that when
twenty millions.
I'VE buy most of our raw materials
from abroad, turn them into manufac-
tured articles, and then offer them in
the world markets, and get well paid for
them. Other more fully developed indus
trial states do much the same. There
Is this difference between them and US,
they can obtain the raw materials within
their own boundaries. Our policy must
De W OuIGSlNtS
and more Independent OF foreign sources
Of supply. The more our population in
creases, just so much greater must be
the proportion dependent on industries.
The deduction to make is, that the most
important point to US is, not what may
happen In regard to Belgium, to Lithuania
and to Courland and Poland, but the
necessity of removing, once for all, the
danger OF development of our father
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our great opponents. That cannot be at
tained by the annexation of land. The
extensive and thinly peopled provinces
OF Lithuania and Couriand might help
us for a time, but not for long.
+ Possibilities of Future.
: THE true promising possibilities for
the future of Germany lie in Asia Minor,
Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine These
regions must be developed for trade pur-
poses by the laying of roads, building OF
railways, and investment OF capital. Tur-
key cannot do that alone; she needs the
help of Germany. The Bagdad railway
| line crosses near Nineveh, one of the
greatest petroleum producing districts in
the world. Among the Taurus Mountains
are immense deposits Of copper and other
metals. The Babylonian plain can be-
come one of the worlds greatest grain
and cotton-growing lands, and In Mesopo-
| tamia millions of sheep can be raised.
There we have most of our needed
raw materials handy. Let US, there
fore. see to 1t that the present war al
lance between Germany, Austria Hun
gary, Bulgaria, and Turkey is trans
formed into permanent commercial
| union.
I'VE cannot take dominions as our
| opponents took them. We Joined too late
in the division of the other continents
| to do that. We have the odds against
us, and II we are to reach our full de-
velopment we must exert to the utmost
all our intelligence, all our political and
national energies. We must create a
! political and commercial union in the
grand style with our present allies. Then
we could, in a future war, receive all
the raw materials necessary by way OF
the Bagdad railway. without our enemies
being able to prevent us.
Yet another point One of the most
| important aims of the war is to obtain
have this freedom II our fleet were as
strong as the British. But that takes
time and much. very much money. There
against Britsin-namefy, to find a point
in the world where strong pressure car
| be put on Britain. That point lies al
| the Suez Canal When Turkey has built
a railway to the immediate neighborhood
of Egypt and fixed good military stations
near the canal, then the power of put.
/ ting pressure on Britain will have been
obtained"
! Word received from Boston last week that
Herbert Moran, Outfelder Of the Boston Braves