New Britain herald., 1917-05-21

is regarded here as largely answered beforehand by information revealing for the first time the full scope of the Imperial governments aspirations for conquest in the south.
 This information discloses as one of the primary aims of the war plan for consolidation of an impregnable military and economic unit stretching from the North sea to the Mediter- ranean, cutting Europe permanently in half, controlling the Dardanelles, the Aegean and the Baltic, and eventu- ally forming the backbone of Prus- sian world empire.
 In the light of German history the plan shows how implicitly the kaiser has followed out the blood and iron |politico-economic methods of Bis marck for development of Prussian power. Considered in view of the present war map, it shows that the major portion of the kaiser's war pro- gram has been accomplished, regard less of what disposition Is made of conquered territory in France, Bell gium and Russia.
 A full realization of this situation, which will form sinister background for consideration of whatever renun- ciation proposals the Imperial chan cellor may make, adds new force to the repeated declarations of allied statesmen that the German peace maneuvers are in reality war moves, and that premature truce only would give Germany a. resting period in which further to Prussianize and pre- pare for greater world war in the territory to the southeast, which she has conquered under the guise of a friendly alliance.
 Although officials have refrained from definite public expressions of what the United States might demand as a peace guarantee, these possibil- tties recall with recurring emphasis President Wilson's declaration that America would fight until "the world Is made safe for democracy" They bring into relief Foreign Minister Bal four's warning that hard fighting still must win the war, the conviction of the American general staff that the country must prepare for at least pre- dictions of an early peace have been discredited as visionary in virtually every allied capital.
 How minutely defined is the Ger man plan and how accurately it is be-
 
 parent only with the opening up, dur ing the last few weeks of several new avenues of information. The return of American diplomatic agents from the Central empires, the visit of the British and French war missions, de- tailed confidential reports of the re- cent frank expressions in the Reich stag and in the German press, and the deductions of alert American agents abroad watching the newest peace moves, have supplied the explanation of more than one hitherto obscured feature of the German policy
 In her southeastern conquests, 1t is now apparent, Germany has followed almost in toto the long-esta blished plan of the Pan-German league. whose propaganda had been regarded outside or Germany as the harmless activity of extremists, too radical to be taken seriously. Coupled with this plan, as an instrument of economic consolida- ton, the German officials have used with only slight notifications the sys- tenn Of customs union expansion which aided Tn former years to extend her domination over the other German states now making up the empire.
 Propaganda Begins in 1911.
 As early as 1911 the Pan-German league is said to have circulated a definite propaganda of conquest, with printed appeals containing maps of a greater Germany whose sway from Hamburg Nto Constantinople and then southeastward through Asiatic Turkey was marked out by boundaries vir- tually coincident with the military lines held today, under German off,