Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-25
|ND|CTS GERMANY
IN SIXTEEN COUNTS
Lord Denbigh Claims Central
Powers Were Made by Ag-
gressive Militarism.
WARS SHORT AND BRUTAL
Expected This One Would Be
Similarly Successful, Taking
Everybody by Surprise.


tonight by Lord Dcnbigh. a conserv-
htive member of the House Of Peers.
aid-de- camp to the King and with
brilliant military record IN Egypt and
inaia The irdict mcnt; follow:
]. Germany has been made by ag-
sressire !niltirism. She has grown
10 be what she - by war. and war
alone. and especially by the three short
successful and lucrative wars of 1864
1Sc6 and 1870 against Denmark AUS
tria and France. respectively
,. Ey choosing their own time for
provoking war. when absolutely ready
themselves after long preparation and
when their opponents were unready.
modern Germans have found that their
wars werc short and successful. espc-
cially when waged with utter ruth
lessness and brutality. BY these meth.
ods they have proved war 10 be Z "Gry
paying business fer themselves They
expected Ia be similarly smcccsSfui
when they TOOK everybody by surprise
in leti.
;. Germans have Tor ye1rs been in
tenscly jealous Of England ard tL,.
British empire They have said open
y and for many years tina. they them
selves were heaven-sent race. ies.
tired TO rule the world. and that an
| cftcte. decadent nation of shopke-p-
ers such ;he British. should 70
longer he allowed to ciain, supremacy
1t sea and fly their hated flag all over
the world.
"Weltmacht oder niedcrgang" (world
dominion or dowrfalD beoume :he fa-
vorite German motto. They found tha;
ta Dkor
world dominion were the British .icct
and fortified coaling stations-in short.
the British empire and sea supremacy
and British foreign trade
4. Germany hoped TO attain her ends
by peaceful penetration" but all the
! time was preparing to fight for them.
When peaceful penetration" was found
to be too slow. they deliberately de-
cded i'll 1911. or early in 1912, TO COM
plete preparation for war after the
harvest of 1914. BY 1914 the widening
and deepening of the Kiel Canal to
admit the large dreadnaughts would
be completed. The war began with the
attack on Serbia in order to clear the
road TO the East. The murder OF the
archduke, arranged by German agen-
cies, was the immediate preteXt.
HAD HEART SET ON
GAINING IN THE EAST
5. German writer's say openly that
the main Keystone of the British en-
pire is Egypt and the Suez Canal" and
that ''if England loses the canal all
the bonds of the empire are loosened."
We should then only be able to use
that route to the east by and with
the leave Of Germany.
6. Germans never expected England
to come into this war; hence their hate
and rage which has been vented on
British prisoners by cowardly i'll treat
ment. If the crushing of Serbia could
not be accomplished without gem
eral war, they calculated on being al
lowed to defeat France and Russia
and then, having secured one position
in Belgium and on the coast OF Flan
ders. and in Asia Minor when Egypt
and the Suez Canal could be threatened
and attacked. England would be easy
to deal with alone.
= The great scheme for the creation
OF a central Europe. for bringing the
Balkan states (Serbia, Roumania. Bull
garia, Greece and Montenegro and all
Turkish dominions under the control
of Berlin has been assiduously preached
in Germany for many years.
Maps depicting greater Germany
with a population estimated to reach
| 25o,0oo,oo0 by the year 1850, were wide
ly circulated on post cards eight years
before thc war.
S. Central Europe cMittlc Europa
would be great belt of territory
stretching 5000 miles from the North
Sea to the Persian Gulf and served
through Asia Minor by the Bagdad
Railway, built and controlled by Ger
mans. Germany would thus divide anL
dominate Europe and the world. From
a strong strategical center around AlcD-
po, she would then destroy Britains
positions in Egyp: and the East. seize
her trade route TO India and under
mine British supremacy there.
Q. German inland waterways. al
ready of great importance, are being
still further developed. Tho existing
canal through Bavaria connecting the
Rhine and Danube is to be enlarged as
ship canal. The system of canals
and canalized rivers from the North
Sea is also being extended through Bo-
hemia to the Danube y further great
scheme to connect Riga, on the Baltic,
with the Black Sea by similar means
through Russia, has recently been ap-
proved. TheSe routes, wncn coh1pietcu'
will enable submarines and destroyers
TO be brought across Europe to the
Black Sea, where also ample shipbuild-
ing facilities would exist through Ger
man occupation Of Odessa and the dock
yards at NicolaieH and Sebastopol. II
the Black Sea remains under German
control. she can at any time by means
of submarine make the Mediterranean
tD,& ttftt EpU
dangerous, If not almost impossible.
simultaneous land attack with Turko-
| German army OF even moderate dimen-
sions made from around Aleppo. on
Egypt and the Suez Canal would be
Irresistible.
10 German, with the Bagdad Rail-
way working to beyond Aleppo has
gained nearly all she went to war for.
la.a. a l..ll c( ixaln nxad