The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-05

Germanic customs union ana 10 ac-
cord to Austria a war and CONNER
cial port on the lower Danube. with
railroad leading to IT, Rumania 20
have her own army. but to make
military treaty with Austria Ru-
mania to have no fleet. her coast De-
ing protected by the German Meet
I'm the event OF victorious war
against Russia. Rumania to oosain
upper Bessarabia as far as the Dni-
ester. in such case Austria to receive
lower Bessaraota. which would De
made into a .margraviat, to become a
purely German frontier state. ms
margraviat to include the towns OF
Odessa, Bender. Borodino. Formosa.
Benz. Ismail and the Danube deHa
at sulina. At the mouth of the Ger
man Danube German warships to
mount guard In the Black sea
German agents In that part OF Ru-
mania now occupied by the central
empires armies are trying to seduca
the peasants with this idea OF
Greater Rumania. the same propa-
| Fanda Is also being carried out IN nn-
occupied Rumania. In order to nght
against It General Tcherbatchet. VINO
is attached to King Ferdinand OF Ru-
mania as commander of the Russian
{
lust issued the following appeal to
his army: I'VE must prevent the ac-
tivities Of irresponsible Icople who
are proragating German ideas in an
allied country" As to the linking OF
Russian Bessarabia with the future
Greater Rumanid as conceived ny the
nan-Germans. the German plan to
seize the Danube delta and Southern
Russia mentioned by General Alex
: Jeff is designed to bring 1t about.
BulEarias entry into the war on the
side Of the central emnires is re-
sponsihle for the only change made
sin the 1895 plan, which is to give
Ruman!an Dobrudja to the Bulga-
/ rians
GRE aTFR SERBIA AND TEE
.RAIKANS.-This is the Alldeutsch-
er Eerbands scheme: "Crnatia-Dal-
r.atfa. Montenegro. Bosnia. Here
govina and what now tS95) consti-
tutes the Serbian kingdom to form
the kingdom of Greater Serbia,
grouping together all Southern Slavs
and attaching them to Austria by the
personal relations Of the monarchS
Of the two countries. Albania Rul-
: raria, Greece and especially Greater
Serbia to enter the German customs
ni,ion."
The creation Of Greater Serbia, or
YouEoslavia comprising the terri
tories mentioned in the Se5 plan,
was announced at the end Of 1916 II
would be constituted in such way
that Slavonic countries living on the
Adriatic would he detached from the
Youroslav countries anu be thor
ouehlv Commanded. In addition TO
the Dohrudia. Bulgaria woull OBTAIN
Serbian Macedonia and the region CT
Nish
deutecher verhand worked out the
problem OF Austria Hungary In these
terms: THE present German empire
and especially Northern Germany
needs Austria in order to be able 70
defend herself materially; every Prus-
sian understands this. For her colo
, nists the German empire needs the
wide stretches Of soil IN Transietth
ania Austria needs A dominant race
and the Germans alone can d"minat"
, her An Slav=. the Czcchs ut their
! head. bate us from the bottom al
thei- hearts The Naeyars dttcst IL
/, tla~t rs deeply They alt exeerate US
/ hctIu4c they know that our life Is
'heir death Their territory is little
: pcopIed German emigration must hf
Systematically directed toward the
+, -tyatr2ic points of lstria. the SloVa,
= ami Magyar portions Of hungary am,
~ bohemia. ANA tn G7lcia toward it,
Polish confines of Si!csia aud Pos
O. mania,
- W.. Germans would ind no ad
: vantage in the destruction Of Aus
: trta HUNGARY as she stands at pres
y eut. Her close political and economt
attachment 20 ehe German empire cal
be brought about under the form
~ ~ customs union, for example. som
- changes. would have to he made. Ga
: l1o}a and the Bukovina would be eX
!. cfJfsd from the austrian monarch
J nnd form TIE. Mncifas IF *ttf k{tL
doms Of Poland aud Little Russia
. The rest of the Austrian empire woul
!, enter the confederation Of Contra
y, Europe. would have no separate navy
= hut would keep nm an army in whic
. Germans alone would be allowed I
. serve
a The new Austro- Hungarian erou
-. would comprise 100000 nonGer
/, mans--Magyars, Czechs, Slovacs, Slo
venes and Italians-and 10000, o.
+ Germans (the figures are those o
:. 1880. The Germanization of 1000,
V 900 Maeyars seems more difficult tina
IS in reality it is; the same with III
:. Czechs. The Slovacs and Slovene
= would have to submit to Germani=a
ton: their geographical situate
{ condems them.
- Access to the Adriatic is A vita
10 question for -Germania. and tn
ar German people Will lose all means
q peace and war to bring 1t about
l. When the Italians fall upon US. Tries
Is must never pass into her hands.
~ If the house of Hapsourg be Meth
: 81 disposed nor able to bring abol
Is the difficult task of closely unitin
Austria Hungary to Germany W
I could see that II were done throug
" the media of German princely fnmiltt
Of less Importance Germany has to
" many princes and Austria too man
:. rationaiities."
=, We, in 1871 know. that the questio
Of Austria overshadows all others, !
"a fact. without the suhservience TO Gel
many through the medium of tn
;. Hapshurgs. of the non German popu
- lations OF Central Europe, and with
y out the help deriving therefrom c
~ Bulgarian and Turkish electives.
% Is quite certain that Germany woul
:. Lave had to cease the war long age
~ Except in the case OF the Magyar
n whose nobility. however, is thor
/ oughly playing the German game