The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-15

gium will remain in the Geramn
 sphere or power. and it is impossi- ble that the quadruple entente, ov-
 CT the heads of it's Allies, shall ever l accept our peace demands with re- l gard to Belgium. It only remains for us, therefore, to avoid during i he peace negotiations all discus
 lions about the form of the annex ltion, and to apply nothing but the | right of conuqest.
 | 'lt is true that dy2astic consid | erations have an importance, which S not to be underestimated. For, in 1 jew of our just and ruthless pro- | oedure, the King of the Belgians | will be deposed and will remain 1 abroad as an aggrieved enemy. We | must put up with that, and it is to | )e regarded almost as a happy cir :umstance that necessity compels us | o leave dynastic considerations en- tirely out of account A king will never voluntarily hand over his country to the conqueror, and Bel cium's king can never consent to lbandOn his sovereignty or to al ow it to be restricted. If he did 70 his prestige would be 50 under mined that he would have to be re- garded not as a support, but as an obstacle, to German interests. On he most various occasions the Eng sh have described the right of conquest as the healthiest and sim )lest right, and we can read in Ma ;hiavelli that he who desires to ake possession of a country will be compelled to remove the king or regent, even by killing him. "These are grave decisions, but they must be taken, for we are con- ,erned with the welfare and the future of Germany and concerned also with reparation for the war of destruction that has been directed against us."
 Odem, London Times, June 6, 1917.)
 Pan-German Propaganda. The Vorwaerts protests to Gen. eral von Ludendorff and the Prus- sian war minister against the pur ehase and circulation among troops, in hospitals and schools by Ger nan grand headquarters of Pan- German brochure advocating the in- corporation of France as a federat- ed state of Germany and the reduc- ion of Poland, Finland, Courland md the bulk of European Russia o the status of protectorates or an- lexed territories of Germany. This act of the army authorities s particularly glaring on account If the fact that the brochure is di- 'ected almost as much against Chancellor von Bethmann-H -Hollweg IS against the socialists" Summary of dispatch from Co., )enhagen, quoting Vorwaerts, New York Times, June 10, 1917. This whole matter of pan-German prop aganda in the army was recently made the subjectof an interpella ion in the Rechstag. Chancellor Michaelis explained that the gov ernment was seeking to sustain the morale of the army and to counter
 ict enemy propaganda.)
 Hated by Interiors. "The hatred bestowed upon us by the whole world may be classified IS the hatred of an inferior race for
 l superior one To the devil with
 Ill talk of kulture AS if any sol 1ier would have gone to the front or the sake of striving for kultur. What our armies, our sons and brothers are fighting for is great CT Germany with boundaries that will insure us against an attack by highway robbers such as we have lately been exposed to. (Alldeutsche Blaetter. Quoted by Dagene Nyheter Swedish daily
 paper), July 21, 1917.)
 Look to the Army.
 "The task of the statesmen in
 charge will be to remain at the time of the negotiations( for peace)
 in close touch with the high com
 mand of the army and to reckon on
 the military advantages gained by
 the blood of our brave soldiers, in
 order to make the best use of the
 possibility of new military blows. If he does this successfully, he can
 count on the approval of the army
 and of the people. The resolution (for no annexations and no indem-
 nities) does not fit in with these conceptions and we unanimously re- ject it."
 (Cout von Westarp in the name
 of the conservative party (July 20, 191D, concerning the resolutions
 in the reachstag. quoted in Journal
 de Geneve, July 21, 1917.)
 God and the Sword.
 Conservatives would further de-
 cline anything in the nature of
 Scheidemann peace. They hope, on
 the contrary. in spite of faint-heart-
 ed counsels, by the rejection of all
 social democratic international at
 tempts at an understanding, to im-
 pose a German peace by the help of God and the German sword" Dt.t Ja. ~.N