The Washington herald., 1918-07-12
HUN WAR AIMS
! BUSINESS PELF
IN MANY LANDS
Object to Retain Material
Resources and Industrial
Benefits.
By LORD DENBIGH.

house OF peers and aide-de-camp
to the King, with a record Of q
brilliant military career in Egypt
and India.)
London. July 11.-Everybody will
have realized by this time that the
Germans are out to make this war
paying business, as all former wars
have been to them. Their object is to
retain material resources everywhere
for the benefit of German industries
and the German nation. They want
to rob France Of her coal and iron
mines at Briey and Longwy, Just as
they robbed her Of the iron fields of
Lorraine In 1870 They have seized the
oil wells of Rumania; their grip has
descended upon the Ukraine, a vast
fertile district with some 30,0o0,O00 in
habitants, with great tracts OF the
richest wheat lands, and great
resources of coal. iron and other min
erals at present only partially ex-
plotted.
In Asia Minor. the commercial ad-
vantages to be obtained by exploiting
that great country by means OF the
Bagdad Railway was the honey-pot to
attract the German commercial men.
Under the camoufiage of this COM
mercial expansion, the German mill
tary party saw their opportunity to
occupy that great district in the
Aleppo region. and make it a stra-
tegical base of great strength for the
purpose Of attacking Egypt and the
Suez Canal.
This could be done without a large
army. II once the Eastern Mediter-
ranean were made impossible by
large numbers OF submarines work
ing from the Aegean Sea and cutting
on our reinforcements from the Suez
Canal Once they have Egypt a
prey, the cotton, sugar and cereals
tbut more especially the cotton) of
that wonderful country becomes raw
material for Germany and Austria
All this carries them another step
further to the establishment Of a
great Central African scheme to be
used as a vast reservoir for cheap
raw materials for the German in
dustries.
Hun Rule q Crime.
To permit the establishment Of the
Germans in force in tropical Africa
would be a crime against humanity.
II only the British and American
public knew the disgusting and
abominable cruelties by which they
have carried out their rule over the
unfortunate natives, the soul of both
countries which are distinguished
throughout history for the successful
handling Of native tribes, would re-
volt at the prospect of any agree
ment installing the Germans in con-
troll Of black races.
If our own labor party could only
read Of these cruelties and under
stand the methods by which Ger
many sets out to gain cheap raw ma
terial, they would do all they could
to stiffen the backs of our people
against these inhuman monsters. Any
raw materials can be produced cheap
ly when the labor which produces
them is fiogged, worked in chain
gangs. impressed from other districts
and when the supply of such labor Is
unlimited and no questions asked.
l hope all Americans will realize
that the German nature really is the
result Of German teaching, and 1
think that they will conclude that
the blasphemous talk of the Kaiser
in addressing the Almighty as the
good old German Cod and claim
ing Him as an exclusive ally marks
the whole race down as something
utterly alien to American concep-
tions.
The British admiralty has pre-
pared an interesting chart showing
how at four German bases they have
been planning to form depots from
which submarines each with a ra-
dius of 5000 miles, could control
every trade route in the world.
Emden. in Germany. can reach
the whole of the North Atlantic and
Down to Sierre Leone.
From Duala in the Cameroons, the
whole OF the South Atlantic from
Morocco across to South America
and thence to Cape Town could be
controlled.
From Dar-es-Salam, in German
East Africa, the 3.000-mile arc
would touch Madras at one end and
German Southwest Africa at the
other. and command the Indian
Ocean.
From RabauI in German New Gui-
aea. to the North of Australia, they
could reach the trade routes of the
Pacific from the North of Japan to
we'll beyond the southernmost point
of Australia.
With all this, with tropical Africa
and Egypt, Asia Minor and the control
Russia, Germany would be in posses
sion of the world and would obtain
aer Veldtmacht-which is her real war
aim and everybody else would be
''niedergang" part of the business.
Her favorite motto is ''Veldtmacht
oder Niedergang'-''w dominion
Or downfall''-and to get all this Ger
many has plunged the world into
blood.
To fight against this. to save the
world from being the growing under
dog to a nation whose bullying ana
calculated brutality knows no bounds
why England, America and all the
lilies are in the war. To obtain this
zeldtmacht. the power of the British
empire had to be destroyed and the
simplest way of destroying 1t was
% cut in two; and the easiest place
20 perform the operation was in
Egypt. at the Suez canal; hence the
8agdad railway. the murder OF the
Arehduke, the attack on Serbia to
lear the road to the East and finally
he war.
study large maps. put two and two
.ogether. and think. But to think
carefully. you must understand the
?russian and the Prussian nature.