Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-06
PUTNAM

Amazing and TrsasonabIe Document, Rreparsd by County Resident, sue-' aests Partition Of United states Among Warrinp Nations-Twenty Of Company L, WilIimantic, Arr E rive to Guard Bridges, Etcs-Edi<s Telegraph Pledge of Loyalty to the President.
 A remarkable document came to light here Thursday. It has been in possession of a local business man kept secretly until now. In the light of developments of the present week 1t has been decided to release it for publi cation. showing the to what exttent such "suggestionsss have gusae in tle mind of some peo-l pie who have come to this Country from their own to make their homes.
 A stenosrapfer here who does, work for tilose who bring it to her in the office where she IS employed held out . copy when she made "a lot of copies"
 for the man who placed the order.
 This man is represented as of con Windham county and a reservist of one of the small neutral countries bor- dering on Germany and pro-German in his tendencies, it is said. What he did with the copies is not known, but they were delivered to him and he paid for them. The Business man who released the coy to the press Thursday says he is willing at government authorities if they are in- terested in knowing about 1t The document is as follows: The United States as the Prize For Settlement of the Present European Conflict.
 It is stated on high authority that "Suggestions'r have been made in the diplomatic circles of the European chance11ories; declaring the easiest so- Iuti0n, and one most acceptable to all the warning nations. would be the partition among them of the United States of America. The United States
 re for t ed by these nations, and an arrange yrent on the basis Of the respective relations Of the different nations is surprisingly practicable. So far from being visionary scheme for a solution of this great world conflict, the fact is only too ap-s parent that only small part of the effort expended in the sanguinary struggle, now raging, would have suf feed to satisfy all nations in their re- spective ambitions.
 A noted diplomat declared his sur prise that this idea of the partition of the United States had not emerged sooner because the land is so largely made up of the constituency of all the warning nations.
 | The tentative plan to satisfy thus the national ambitions of the Europ- can countries at war. instead of pro- longing the interniceHe struggle, is broadly outlined as follows: Great Britain is to occupy New Eng land, Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina. Georgia and F1orf- da.
 France is to get the French parts of Eastern Canada. and the states of Louisiana, Mississippi. Alabama, Ar kansas, Tennessee. and Kentucky. Germany is to occupy the states of New York, Pennsy1vania. Ohio, Indi- ! ana, Michigan, Illinois. Missouri, Wis consis, and Minnesota.
 Japan is to take the Pacific coast, | the states of Oregon. upper and lower California.
 l Mexico is to be compensated for lower California by ceding to it Ari- zona New Mexico and part of Texas. | Russia will receive Alaska The Panama canal will be declared | free, whilst the Western states and North and South Dakota, Nebraska. Oklahoma, Washington, Montana, Wy oming, Iraho, Utah and Colorado will 1 be consolidated into an imperial | crown-donain of the German empire. Though these "satisfactions" are to i be acquired in a concerted campaign,
 each of the several nations is to ef- | feet the occupation of it's own allotted l territory.
 Thus, 1t is claimed. would best be met the rights and interests of the 1 different nations of old Europe. as it would safeguard their nationals under l their respective flags
 | Whatever be said that this bold so- l lution, it should be appreciated, that l in many ways. it is more feasible than ! the three successive partitions of Po- land which. nevertheless. are historic 1 facts.
 | Truth is somewhat stranger than
 | Haf r., oil
 standing of the powers at war may be | reIegated to imaginative fiction. but it Is surely not stranger than fhe sober truth. and it might easily take it's form.
 l CENSUS WORK COMPLETED.