The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-19

Very quickly Austria learned that the
i'll gotten booty was to belong only to
Prussia. Austria, cheated out OF her
spells, raised a protest, which was seized
as an excuse for war by Prussia. Prus-
sian armies were hurled over the Aus
trian border and in six weeks time com
pletely subdued the surprised and unpre-
pared Austrians.
Austria was forced to humiliatiny
peace and since that time she has been
slave to the wishes of her Prussian over
lords. With the defeat Of Austria, Prus-
STA became the leader of all the German
states in a new confederation.
It was now necessary according TO
Prussian plans to force all the German
states into great and victorious war
under the leadership of Prussia against
supposed common enemy. Such a war
would give Prussia the military control
over all the German states, and would
| furnish the opportunity for the strsngle
hold that she desired
Bismarck, the arch-conspirator against
the freedom of nations, Matched up pre-
text for war with France, goaded the
French people into a war-like attitude,
and then suddenly Prussian hordes sup
ported by drafts from the German states
of the confederation poured over the
French border.
Prussia found an ill-prepared and dis
organized people just as she had expect
ed, and swiftly forced disgraceful peace
upon the French nation, levying an in
demnity so gigantic that Bismarck be-
lieved the French would never be able to
pay the full amount in the time allotted.
The treaty of peace called for Prussian
troops to remain on French territory I'M
til the indemnity was paid. Bismarck
and the Prussian king planned to fore
close a mortgage on the French people
and keep the French nation under the
Prussian heel, but they had not counted
on French pride and ability and were
greatly disappointed when the sum was
paid in full, long before it was due.
4. The War Birth of the German Empire.
The Prussians held great celebration
in the city of Paris over the humiliation
of the French, and the clever King Will
liam and his powerful minister seized
the opportunity to propose q German
empire formed of all the German states.
It was of course understood that Prussia
and the Prussian king would be the dom
inant power in this new empire.
The princes and representatives. Of the
various German states, intoxicated by
the glory Of their great military success,
fell into the trap. The German empire
was born on French soil and wildly pro-
claimed by a German army that, drunk
with victory, revealed In the streets Of
Inundated Paris.
The domination of Prussia over all the
German states and people was now COM
plete The next step in the Hohenzollern
dream was the domination Of the world
by a consolidated, autocratic Germany
S. The World Plans of the German Empire
Germany first made public to the
world in 1900 her plans for further Ger
man conquest, but the advocates of world
peace were holding so much of the peo-
Piles attention that what Germany pro
posed to do for herself attracted no par
tieular interest.
While the world slept, innocent of the
great danger, the German army was in
creased to 100000 peace strength and
nearly 100000 war strength, a great
military chest was filled by huge taxes
with the wealth necessary to finance a
great war. Factories, farms, mines in
dustries Of all kinds were organized for
immediate control by the government in
the event of war Great stores of mill
tary equipment were gathered in readi-
ness for the day of battle.
The food resources of the nation were
All organized on a war basis in anticipa-
tion of the Great War, Experts in the
field of science sought continuously for
new and terrible methods Of warfare.
The frightfll results Of their efforts We're
secreted in preparation for the day that
they might be loosed upon an astounded
and peace.loying world. The whole of
German life and effort was organized so
that all its parts would click into gi-
gantic engine of human destruction when
the kaiser pressed the button.
In 1908 Austria, backed by German
armies, annexed without cause the prov
ince of Bosnia from Serbia. Serbia APP
pealed to its brother people, the Rus
slams, for help. Germany, who was not
supposed to be concerned in the affair,
notified Russia that any interference
with Austria's seizure of Bosnia would
mean war; and to back this statement
German armies were massed on the Rus
sian frontier.
Russia, weak from her defeat at the
hands of Japan, was forced to be content
with feeble protest at this act of high.
way robbery
The seizure of Bosnia by Germany's
dupe, Austria, was the beginning of the
German plan to extend her sway to the
Balkan states, Turkey and into Asia to
the Persian gulf.
The kaiser now journeyed to Turkey
with great pomp and ceremony, hob
nobbed with the despised sultan, went
so far as to adopt the heather religion
of the Turks, sanctioned the horrible
massacres of the Christian Armenians
and proclaimed hiuself as a God given
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