Evening star., 1918-01-27

groups O1 lldllOuio iOW d. Ndi VIII
Turning directly to those Of the Pres
ident's conditions which deal with ter
all to discuss briefly the combined ef-
feet of all of these conditions upon the
grapdiose German conception OF MIL
teleuropa under Germany's direction,
and then rapidly to survey each OF the
conditions separately.
Peace Plans Ha1ve Mitteleuropa.
If you will look at any map OF
Europe you will see that the PresI-
dents plan in restoring Serbia and Ru-
mania and giving Serbia a seacoast IN
terposes solid barrier stretching from
the Black to the Adriatic sea between
the northern and southern groups of
nations which together form the CEN
trail alliance. Mitteleuropa, as the pan
Germans have conceived it. as Nau-
mann wrote about it, was to be a soilo
block of territory extending from the
on the Elbe, and Basra. above the
mouths of the combined floods OF the
Euphrates and the Tigris, were to be its
seagates, while through Mesopotamia
the great state was to touch ser Yersia
This solid block of territory. IN area
more than half as large as the United
States. with a population OF more 1hali
$4,000, 900. was to be bound by canais
and railroads. beyond the reaen dare1oned OF SEQ
regions in Asia Minor, and 1T was con-
ceiyed to be but the central core OF
still vaster expansions wnlcn snouiu
cross the Suez canal and sweep up
Egypt and North africa, IolioMtne d .n5
nathway of Arabian conquests. ana
push eastward along the route OF Aiex-
ander the Great, now followed. in part,
hv the Bagdad railroad, to the IRON
tiers of India.
Dream Existed Long Before War.
This dream had existed before the
present war: the Bagdad raliroaa % as %
detail in the plan had been the cause OF
endless international pickering, but the
war itself bringing as 1t dld the oenion
stration of the meaning OF sea po"si,
STRENGTHENED the determ1nation OF tne
Germans to build an empire Whlch: uh-
Iil.e their colonial possessions in AFRICA,
sbould not be swept up as mere m
cident of British activity seeing their
colonies 60 as those Of France had gone
in the eighteenth century, the Germans
quest and construction of domain be-
yond the baleful influence of dominant
maritime power.
In the scheme of Mitteleuropa the ac-
tual control was to rest IN dhe oa hanos oi
the Germans Of the 1S5.000.o0o inhabi-
tants dwelling in lands included in the
nlau only 100000 were actually Ger
man by race and tongue. But TINS
minority, this 40 per cent, since they
we're Germans, and thus members of
"superior" race, were to control. With
the Germans were allied two other
races, which were to have full and ap-
proximately equal rights; these were
the Magyar and the Bulgar. The Tor
mer numbers 100000. the latter less
than 5000, 900. and with these added to
the German population we have then
80 0,O0O,0 900 of three ruling races which
were to dominate an empire in which
their collective population was less than
half.
Inferior Races, "Cannon Fodder"
OF the "inferior races" as the Ger
man reckons. not less than 45.oOO.0Oo
were Slavs-24, 100000 Austrian Slavs.
100000 Slavs Of the conquered Rus
sian district and 100000 Serbs OF that
Serbian state which was to be extin-
guished. In addition. 100000 French
and Belgians. 100000 Rumanians and
,00O, 900 Italians were to be included,
together with 100000 Osmanli Turks
and a welter of peoples of the fringes
of the Turkish empire. Arabs. Arme-
mans and Greeks. And these inferior
races were to furnish the soldiers. the
cannon fodder. for the new armies of
this gigantic creation - armies which
were to complete the conquest of Eu-
rope in due time. and then to pass over
into Asia and Africa. and revive in
three continents the Roman tradition
of world control.
In his scheme the German planned to
hold all of France which had been con-
quered, all of Belgium and Luxembourg,
all of the Russian territories already oc-
cupied. and, finally, his Balkan gains.
In Europe alone this represented an
area greater than that of Germany her
self before the war and population of
more than 42,000.000-a population.
then, exceeding that Of France in 1911.
With all these anneXations the Euro
pean half of the new empire would rep
of Germany herself. And it is neces-
sary to bear in mind that 1t is with this
plan in full view that the Germans are
negotiating with the Russians a Brest-
Litovsk, and have declared against
evacuation of conquered territories in
advance of peace-or ever. SO far as
one can see. Belgium. Poland. Lithu-
France - these. together with Serbia
and Rumania (Which bring the COM
plete control Of the Danube), are to be
included.
President Wilson's Plans Reviewed.
Now President Wilson demands the
restoration Of Serbia and Rumania. If
this be achieved the German Mittel-
europa is cut in half almost at the
waist; both banks of the Danube, its
main artery, will be in alien hands at
the Iron Gates; the erlin-Byzantium-
Bagdad railway. it's rail lifeline, will be
severed from Belgrade to the Rumanian
frontier Turkey and Bulgaria will be
separated from Austria and Germany.
And with such a separation the whole