The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-12
HUNS SCREENING
 FOR YEARS FOR
 WORLD CONTROL
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| WAL NAAUS1Sld1lu why AOuSl1l the heroic little people of Serbia with such dogged and bitter hate; for he | can now see that once Serbia was overthrown, the Pan-Gcrman empire of Mittel-Eropa was a reality. | By the strange irony of circum- stance, Germany won, without war, her whole Pan-German map, except | the gateway through Serbia. She still hoped to bully Serbia into sur render without wide conflagration, and so be able to set to work~to con sohdate her empire for the Great War 4 If her first plan of campaign; but the heroic little people of Serbia saved the world.
 How Serbia Saved the World.
 So it came about that in trying to ee mplete her second plan of cam Iaign Germany suddenly found her self headed on the mad career of her fni first plan of campaign. She had to launch her vast legionS at France and Russia To Germany'S cpnster- nation, Britain struck-and from that moment it was almost inevitable that the first plan of campaign was lost. It was Germany's gross strategic blunder, and was carried out in blum der after blunder
 From the moment that Germany was defeated at the Marne her first plan of campaign wf1ted, and all hope of victory in the west perished. Hope lessly defeated in the west, the Ger nan could only look to snatching suf- f:cient victory in the east to save him his second plan of campaign - his Pan-German empire; and the moment he could get that, then peace must be sprung on the world at all costs. A very sound strategy.
 It may be thought that merely to crush Serbia and call for peace were pretty easy affair. It may be said: Why attack Russia before flying the peace dove if only Serbia needed breaking to complete the Pan-German nap? It so happened that Serbia re- fused to be crushed-indeed, crushed her enemies instead! And Russia would not allow her to be crushed. Again, while Turkey and Bulgaria and the Greek Court were only wait ing for a great German success to de- clare themselves openly for the Ger man, the German armies were being defeated everywhere, and these treacherous partners in the Pan German empire did look for some sign of German invincibility. The only safeguard for them was for Germany , to prove herself able to punish Rus sia. So, while the German knew that he could not now destroy Russia, he bent with frantic address his every nerve, and brought the weight of his nd n hnfp G. sia sufficiently to secure the Serbian gate. That done, she would fly the . peace dove as magnanimous con- 3 queror, and every day more urgent the need for that flight.
 l So Germany went to earth in the , west, and lashed out at Russia-in- A vaded Poland; was disastrously de- :, feated and flung back. Things looked I | black for the second plan of cam n paign, so Turkey had to be called tc the Germans aid. Bulgaria dare not
 act, so Germany invaded Russia 8
 second time, and for a second time
 Hindenburg was to wade in defeat
 and disaster The third desperate
 invasion of Poland by Hindenburg al
 last won success, and the Russian
 generals, baked by the treachery and
 corruption of the Russian court, had
 to fall back in one of the most skilfu retreats known to human skill and en-
 durance, leaving Poland in German
 hands.
 BuIgaria's Grand Treachery.
 So, by the autumn of 1915, Bulgaria was safe from the Russian, and coul6 | commit the great treachery - she stabbed little Serbia In the side as the German assailed the heroic people 1T front. The Pan-German map was complete. Germany's second plan o1 campaign was won.
 Germany's sole strategy thence | forth was peace-to make a peace tha should establish her Pan-German em E pire of Mittel- Europa.
 Now let the man in the street get { good clear grip of this thing-i means victory or defeat for him; i means a lasting peace or continua and brutal warfare.
 Do not let him listen to any peace talk or war talk about side issues. Tht E sole thing that matters in this war il whether Germany comes out of it a! ttel-Europa or not.
 Victory or defeat depends on tht peace Hldp O1 EuIOpC-
 Nothing else can decide victory O. defeat:
 If the German, having failed utterl. in his strategy in the west, can secure a peace that leaves him his Pan-Ger
 man map, he has won his war. NJ
 matter wht humiliation be put upo1
 him, no matter if he surrenders Bel \ gium and northern France, or ever
 Alsace-Lorraine, if he pay heavy in
 dernnity and make reparation for hi
 crimes in the vest. so long as he SC
 cures Mittel-Europa the German ha
 won his war.
 Finally established on that map
 Germany is strategically mistress O
 the world. A few years to discipline
 aid consolidate her new and waste
 strength, Germany can launch upo1
 Ter dream of world dominion witl
 enormously increased prospects o
 success.
 Why Germany Cries for Peace. So that, in all this wild talk anC
 distracted shouting about peace ant
 the rest of it, the German shouts tn
 loudest to keep all attention from tha
 of which he rarely utters whisper
 And the peoples and their govern
 ments, misled by the German hulla
 baloo, raise cry and counter-cry.
 But there is one thing that tn
 German dreads at the peace table; l
 is that firm statement 0f dcmocrac, which President Wilson's voice ser