The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-21
Cleavage Of Continent From North Sea to
Mediterranean, Control Of Baltic and Aegean
With Domination Of Austria Hungary, Bull
garia and Turkey Form Backbone Of Impe-
rialistc Dream.
WAR AIMS SECRETS DISCLOSED

citation proposals the imperial chan
cellor may make. add a new force to
the repeated declarations of allied
statesmen that the German peace
are in reality war moves
and that premature truce only would
give Germany II resting period in
which to further prussianizc and pre-
pare for a greater world war. using
the territory to the southeast, which
she has conquered under the guisc of
II friendly alliance.
Warnings Are Recalled.
Although officials have rcfrained
from definite public expressions OF
what the United States might demand
as a peace guarantee, these possibli-
ties recall with recurring emphasis
President Wilson'S declaration that
America might fight until the world
Is made safe for democracy.
They bring into relief Foreign Min
lister Balfuur's warning. that hard
fighting still must win the war, the
conviction of the American army gem
eral staff that the country must pre-
pare for at least three years of war
and the fact that predictions of an
early peace have been discredited as
visionary in virtually every allied cap
ital.
How minutcly defined is the German
plan and how accurately it Is being
carried out have become fully appar-
cnt only with the opening up. during
the last few weeks. of several new
avenues of information. The return
of American diplomatic agents from
n iSi nf he
British and French war mission, de-
tailed confidential reports Of the re-
cent frank expressions In the reich
stag and in the German press and the
deductions of alert American agents
abroad watching the newest peace
moves, have supplied the explanation
of more than one hitharto obscured
feature of the German policy.
Follow Program Closely.
Germany has followed almost into
| the long Established plan of the pan
| German league, whose propaganda had
been regarded outside of Germany rs
! the harmless activity OF extremists
! too radical to be taken seriously.
Coupled with this plan as an instru-
mcnt of economic consolidation. the
German officials have used with only
slight notifications the system OF
customs union expansion which aided
Prussia In former years to extend her
dominatio mover the other German
states now making up the empire.
AS early as 1911 the Pan German
| league is said to have circulated a def
mite propaganda of conquest. with
printed appeals containing maps of Il
greater Germany. How closely the
German government did adhere to the
plan of the pan Germans in reality has
been demonstrated clearly. II Is con-
sidered now by the course of the war.
Following In the footsteps of Bismarck.
who used the Franco Russian alliance
to bring Baden. Bavaria and Wurtcm-
burg into the German confederacy and
then into the German empire. Emperor
William chose war as the means OF cs-
tablishing the broad pathway to the
southeast which was essential to reali-
zation of the dream of great Ger
many.
The subjugation of Austria Hun
gary. which would have presented Il
difficult task under ordinary condi-
tions became in these circumstances
comparatively simple. Austria Hun :
gary's submission now Is declared to
be complete both i'm a military and eco =
nOmic sense. The German officers
commanding her armies. abetted by
political and industrial agents seat
tered through the country evidently
are holding the Austrian and Hun =
, garian populations in Il union which,
neither the hardships of war the death
OF the emperor nor the inspiration oi
outside influences such as the Rus
sian revolution can break.
Bulgaria's declaration of war in tho
German diplomatic coup which in 1t,
self. Is regarded now as a further evf.
dence that Il clear road through to the
Dardancllcs was considered in Rerlir
as primary and Imperative purpose
u of the war.
Turkey Completely Dominated.
In the case of Turkey, German dom
ination is believed here to be ever
more complete than in Austria Hun
gary and Bulgaria. 1t has beer
learned that German Industrial or
ganizers have taken a firm grip o,
Turkish industry and a large delega
ton Of German professors has bee'
sent to spread German kulture amonl
the population.
Fitting in squarely with an actual
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