Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-07-05
BOONE wATAUCA COUNTY, C, THURSDAY JULY S. 1917.
The German Dream Of Conquest.

Prof. w. MacLeile Dixon OF the
University of Glasgow has for
warded The Observer a map of
the world showing in red ink
what it would look like il peace
should be declared on the Ger.
man terms. The map affords an
interesting study, carrying as it
1oes the full text of what Ger.
many wants and would claim.
There ore thirty six items, and
the document is not lacking in
modesty. The first demand
would be for Holland, together
with her Royal family. her Euro.
pean possessions, and her colo
nies in South America, the In.
dian Islands and Australia. The
whole OF South America would be
included in the deal, the speciti
cations embracing everything on
that Continent. The Asiatic pos
sessions in Turkey would be ab-
sOrbed as would also the islands
of the Indian Ocean, "the most
valuable colony in the world"
The basins of the two great Chi.
aese rivers, the Hiangho and the
Yangtse.kiang, would be taken
over. Under German dominion
further would come all of Central
Africa from the mouth of the Or.
ange River to Lake Chad, from
the Chameroons Mountains to
the mouth OF the Rovuma; Asia
Minor, the Malay Islands, Syria
and Mesopotamia. Germany al
40 would look out for fleet sta.
tions at Dover, Malta and Suez.
Denmark would be taken as a
whole; the Scandinavians would
be included, and German terri
tory would stretch from the
North Sea to the Baltic, from the
Netherlands taking in Luxem-
burg and Switzerland, down to
the islands OF the Danube and
the Balkans peninsula. Germany
would even incorporate in her
possessions "decrepit States like
the Argentine and Brazilian Re-
publics and all other beggarIy
States OF South America" Bel.
gium must be "struck off the
map" All Morocco must come
in as we'll as all of Egypt.
We have skipped a good many
Of the smaller details, but it is
worth nothing as OF particular
interest to America that the Ger.
man plan would include the "cop-
ping" of the island of Cuba. The
admission is made that hereto
lore Germany has not been g.
wake to her changes for getting
hold of that island, and come to
think about 1T, she wants Cube.
Germany would leave but a very
small portion of France intact
Only a small State in the south.
ern part. with Marsaille and Bor.
deaux as the principal towns.
We are told in explanation of the
future designs upon France that
"the possession OF the coastal
districts bordering on Belgium
far las the neighborhood of the
Somme, must be regarded as a
matter of our future position at
sea. The 'Hlnterland' which must
be acquired with them must be
so ::delimited that the complete
use of the canal.gorts which we
gain, both for industrial and
stragetic purposes, must be Sc.
cured. All further acquisitions of
French territory, apart from the
necessary annexation OF the MN
ing district of Briey, must be de-
termined purely according to
to military and strategical con-
siderations. After the experiences
OF this war, it must be regarded
as a matter OF course that we
must not in the future leave our
frontiers open to hostile iuva-
sion, as we shouldld do if we left
our opponents those fortified po.
sitions which threaten us, and in