Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-05-24
GERMANY'S AIMS
AREREVEALED
Would Dominate Europe From
North Sea to Mediterranean
Peace Offers Are War
Moves.

Peace Offers Are War
Moves.
Washington, May 2O.-Germany's
next peace declaration, expected to
suggest a program of territorial re-
nunciation on; the east and the west,
is regarded here as largely answer
ed beforehand by information re-
vealing for the first time the full
scopes of the imperial governments
aspirations fof conquest in the
south.
This information discloses as one
of the primary aims of the war
plan for consolidation of an i'm
pregnable military and economic
unit stretching from the North Sea
to the Mediterranean, cutting Eu-
rope permanently in half, controll-
ing the Dardanelles, the Aegean and
the Baltic and eventually forming
the backbone Of Prussian world
empire.
In the light of German history,
the plan shows how implicitly the
kaiser has followed out the blood
and iron policy Of Bismarck for de-
velopment of Prussian power. Con-
sidered In view of the present war
map, it shows that the major port
tion Of the kaiser's war program
has been accomplished, regardless OF
what disposition is made of con-
quered territory in France, Belgium
and Russia.
Peace Offers War Moves.
A full realization of this situa-
tion, which will form a sinister back
ground for consideration of whatev-
er remuneration proposals the i'm
perial chancellor may make, adds q.
new force tosthe repeated declara-
tionse. Of aNiedaafatesman that, the
German peace maneuvers are in
ture truce only would give Germany
a resting period in which to further
Prussianize and prepare for great
world war, using the territory to
the southeast which she has con-
quered, under the guise of friend
ly alliance.
Hard Fight to Win War.
Altho officials have refrained from
definite public expressions of what
the United States might demand as q
peace guarantee, these possibilities
are recalling with recurring emphasis
President Wilson's declaration that
America might fight until 1.-The
world is made safe for democracy"
They bring into relief Foreign
Minister Balfour's warning that hard
fighting must win the war, the con-
viction of the army general staff
that the country must prepare 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 capital.
German Plans Shown.
How minutely defined is the Ger
man plan and how accurately it is
being carried out, have become fully
apparent only with the opening up,
during the last few weeks, of sew
eral new American diplomatic a
gents from the central empires, the
visit of the British and French mis-
sion, detailed confidential reports of
the recent frank expressions in the
reichstag and in the German press,
and the deductions of alert Ameri-
cans abroad, watching the newest
peace moves, have supplied the ex-
planation of more than one hitherto
obscured feature of the German pol
icy.
Pan-German League Plan.
In her policy in her southeastern
conquests, 1t now Is apparent, Ger
many has followed almost into the
long-established plan of the Pan-Ger-
man league, whose propaganda had
been regarded outside of Germany as
the harmless activity of extremists,
too radical to be taken seriously.
Coupled with this plan, as an instru-
ment of economic consolidation, the
German officials have used with only
slight modification the system of
customs union expansion which aid
ed Prussia in former years to extend
her domination over the other Ger
man states now making up the en-
pire.
AS early as 1911, the Pan-German
league is said to have circulated &
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with printed appeals containing
maps of a greater Germany. How
closely the German government did
adhere to the plan of the Pan-Ger-
mans in reality has been dem0nstrat-
ed clearly, it is stated. by the course
Of the war. Following in the foot
steps of Bismarck, who used the
Franco-Russian alliance to bring
Baden, Bavaria and Wuerttemburg
into the German confederacy and
then into the German empire, EN-
pefor William chose the war as the
means Of establishing the broad
pathway to the southeast which was
essential for realisation of the dream
Of a great Germany.
Austria-Hungary Subjected.
The subjngation Of Austria Hun
gary, which would have presented q
dimcult task under ordinary condi-
tions. became IA these circumstances.