The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-06-14
EXPOSES
GERMAN INTRIGUE


tral plans OF responsible rulers, |
but the rulers OF Germany them. |
selves knew all the while what |
concrete plans. what wcll advanced |
iutrigues lay back OF what the pro |
lessons and the writer's were say !
ing and were glad TO 20 forward |
unmolested. filling the thrones OF
tho Balkan states with German
Princes. putting German officers
tho service OF Turkey 10 drill
her armies and max. interest with
her government. developing plans
~ scdition and rebellion in India
and Egypt. setting their fires In
rerHia. The demands made by
Austria upon Serbia we're n mere
angle step In plan which CON
asAed Europe and Asia. from Der.
lin 10 baKdad They hoped these
demands might not arouse Europe.
hui they meant TO press them
whether they did or not. for they
. ought themselves ready for the
final issues of arms.
Absorb Aussrla.Nunuary
Their plan was 10 throw
troad belt OF German military
lower and political control across
the very center OF Europe and be-
yond the Mediterranean into the
heart OF Asia and Austria Hungary
was 10 be- as much their tool and
lawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Tur.
key or the ponderous states OF the
last. AustriR,Hungary. indeed.
vas To become part OF tho central
{ crman empire. absorbed and dom
ated by the same forces and In.
iiuences that had originally oe.
rented the German states them.
selves. The dream had It's heart
q Berlin. II could have had a
heart nowhere elsel 1t rejected
tie idea OF solidarity OF race en-
urely.
The choice OF peoples played no
part la IL at all. But the German
military statesman had reckoned
with all that and were ready TO
deal with It In their own way
And they have actually carried
the greater part OF that amazing
plan into execution.
Look Ho" Things Stand
Look how things stand. Aus
tria is nj their mercy II has
acted. not upon tia own initiative
or upon the choice of It's own peo-
pie. but at Berlln's dIctation. ever
since the war began. Its peoples
now desire peace. but cannot have
" until leave r. granted from Ber-
lin. The so-called central powers
are. in fact, but a single power
Serbia iH at It's mercy. should IT'S
hands be but for moment freed
bulgaria has consented to its
viii aud Rumania Is oyer-run.
THE Turkish armies which Ger
mans trained, are serving Ger
many. certainly not themselves.
and the guns OF German warships
| living In the harbor at Constants.
nople remind Turkish statesmen
every day that they have no choice
but to take their orders from Ber.
lin. From Hamburg to the Per.
sian gulf. the net is spread.
The Snare 10 Sprung
rs Il not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since
| the snare was set and sprung?
Peace, peace. peace has been the
| talk OF the foreign nations for now
year and more; not peace upon
her own initiative, but upon the
initiative OF the nations over which
she deems herself TO hold the ad.
vantage A little OF the talk has
been public, but most OF It has been
private. Thru all sorts of channels
II has come to me and in all sorts
OF guises. but never with the terms
disclosed which the German gov.
eminent would be willing to ac-
cept.
That government has other
valuable pawns besides those
have mentioned. II still
holds n valuable part OF France,
tho with slowly relaxing grasp
and practically the whole OF
Belgium. It's armies press
close upon Russia and over
run Poland at their will. Il
cannot 90 further. II dare not
90 back. II wishes to close
Its bargain before II ls too
late, and II has little left to
offer for the pound Of flesh II
will demand.
Masters Are Fearful
"The military masters under
whom Germany is bleeding. see
very clearly to what point fate has
brought them, If they fall back or
are forced back an inch, their
power abroad and AT home viii fall
20 pieces like a house OF cards u
Is their power at home they are
thinking about now. more than