Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-21

Washington, May 20.-Germany' y's next peace declaration, expected to suggest a programme of territorial re- fnunciation on the east and the west, lis regarded here as largely answered beforehand by information revealing for the first time the full scope of the Imperial governments aspirations for IcOuQuest in the south
 Would Cut Europe In Half.
 This information dfscIoses as one of the primary aims of the war plan flor consolidation of an impregnable military and economical unit stretch ing from the North Sea to the Medi- fterranean, cutting Europe permanently the Aegean and the Baltic and event uaIIy forming the backbone of a Prussian world empire.
 Tn the light of German history the ] plan shows implicitly the kaiser has followed out tho blood -and-1ron po- -utico methods Of Bismarck for devel- IopIneut of Prussian power. Consider ed in view of the present war map. it shows that the major part of the kaiser's war programme has been &C., compIished, regardless of what dispo- sition Is made of conquered territory fin France, Belgium and Russia
 Premature Truce Would Help Ger
 many
 4 full realization of this situation. which will form a sinister background
 
 ciation proposals the imperial chan ceI1or may make, adds new force to the repeated declarations of allied statesmen that the GerTna peace ma noeuvres are in reality war moves and that a premature truce only would give Germany a resting period in which further to Prussianize and prepare for a greater world war for territory to -fhe southeast which she has conquered under the gJise of a friendly alliance
 Although officials have refra1ned from definite public expressions or what the United States might demand as a peace guarantee, these poshsibili- 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 Minister Balfour's warning that hard fighting still must win the war, the conviction of the American army general staff that the country must prepare for at least three years of war and the fact that prospects of an early peace have been discredited as visionary in vir- tually every allied capital
 Plan Is Being Carried Out
 How minuteIy defined is the German plan and how accurately It IS AoelnS carried out have become fully appar- ent only with the opening up, during the last few weeks of several new aV- enues Of information The return or American diplomatic agents from the Central Empires, the visit Of the French and British war missions, de- tailed confidential reports of the re- cent frank expressions in the reichstag and in the German press, and the de- auctions of alert American agents l abroad watching the newest peace moves, have supplied the explana- 1 tiOn of more than one hitherto ooscur- ed feature of the German policy. In | her sOutheastern cOnQuests, 1t is now l 2 pparent Germany has followed almost | out the established plan of the |
 I,rsr--. .r1r-r 1T1p prrs11 f1Es had been regarded outside of Ger many as the harmless activity of ex- | trenists, too radical to be taken ser1- | Ously. Coupled with this plan. as an | instrument of economic solidation, the German officials have used with only slight notifications the system of cus- toms union expansion which aided in former years to extend her domination over the other German states now making up the empire.
 Maps of Greater Germany.
 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 Q greater Germany whose sway from Hamburg to Constantinople and then southeastward through Asiatic Turkey was marked out by boundaries vtrt- laIly coincident with the military lines held today, under German officers, by he troops Of Austro-Hungary, Ger many Bulgarian and Turkey. Ad- 1 aesion of the German government it. 'slf to such a plan was not suspect "a by the other powers although the were permitted to con- Inue their activities unhindered and to ipread their appeals in a country of lt-ict press supervision through the Gazette and other radi- al publications. How closely the Ferrnan government did adhere to the slan in reality has been demonstrated .Iearly, t is considered now, by the ,ourse of the war. Following in Footsteps of Bismarck. Following sn the footsteps of Bis i narclS. who used the Franco-Prussian z var alliance to bring Baden, Bavaria ] md WurtteTnburg into the German and then into the German mpire, Emperor William chose war as he means Of establishing the broad C to the southeast which was a ssential for realization of the dream ( z a great Germany. q The ubjugation of Austria -Hungard, E mich would have presented difficult ask under ordinary conditions, be- anne in these circumstances compar- lively simple. 4 polygot combina- ? 0n of states having little in common g