The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-31

fBy Lord Denbigh. n conservative
member OF the house of peers. aide
| de camp to the king, with record
: of brilliant military work in Egypt
and India.)
| London, July 29.--1, Germany has
| been made by aggressive militarism-
| She has grown to be what she ia by
war and war alone, and especially by
the three short successful and lucra-
tive wars of 1854, 1866 and 1870,
against Denmark. Austria and France,
respectively.
| 2. By choosing their own time for
/ provoking war, when absolutely ready
themselves after long preparation and
when their opponents were unready,
m odern Germans have found that
their wars were short and successful.
especially when waged with utter
iruthlessness and brutality. BY these
methods they have proved war TO be
a very paying business for themselves.
They expected to be similarly success
| full when they took everybody by sur
| prise in 1914.
g. Germans have for years been in
Itenseiy jealous of England and the
| British empire. They have said oper-
| w and for many years that they
themselves were q heaven sent lace
destined to rule the world and that an
| effete, decadent nation of shop keep
ers. such as the British, should no
longer be allowed TO claim supremacy
at sea and fly their hated flag all over
the world.
"weltmacht oder niedergsng
world dominion or downfalD became
the favorite German motto. They
found that the main obstacle OF their
desired world dominion were the Brit
| ;.A pl fortified cnaftng stations,
in short, the British empire and sea
supremacy and British foreign trade.
4. Germany hoped to attain her
.nds by peaceful penetration" but all
the time was preparing to hght Tor
Them. When peaceful penetration
was found to be too slow, they '"liS-
erately decided in 1911. or early In
l1912. 10 complete preparations Tor a
war after the harvest OF 1914. BY
llq14 the widening and deepening OF
the Kfel canal to admit the large
Edreadnoughts would be completed.
The war began with the attack on
Serbia in order to clear the road to
the east The murder of the arch
duke. arranged by German agencies,
was the Immediate pretext.
g. German writer's say openly shat
/ 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 loos-
ened." We should then only be able
TO use that route to the east by and
with the leave of Germany.
8. Germans never expected England
TO come into this war; hence their
late and rage which has been vented
on British prisoners by cowardly III
treatment II the crushing of Serbia
could not he accomplished without
general war they calculated on nein
allowed to defeat France and Russia
end then. having secured one posluon
in Belgium and on the coast of Elan
ders and in Asia Minor when Egypt
and the Suez canal could be threatened
and attacked, England would be easy
TO deal with alone
Z The great scheme for the crea-
ton of a central Europe. for bringing
the Balkan states SERBIA, Roumania
/ Bulgaria. Greece and Montenegro
and ali Turkish dominions under the
control of Berlin, has been assldlousiS
preached in Germany for many years
! Maps depicting greater Germany, wlth
a population estimated TO reach 2so.'
600 600 bv the year 1850 were widely
circulated on post cards eight years
before the war.
s. Central Europe t"mittle Eu
ropa"). would be great belt of ter
ritory, stretching 5000 miles from the
North sea to the Persian gulf ane
served through Asia Minor by the
Bagdad railway. built and controlled
by Germans Germany would thus
divide and dominate Europe and tht
world. From strong strategica
center around Alepho, she would ther
destroy Britain's positions in Egyp'
=. and the East. seize her trade route
TO India and undermine British supre
macy there.
q German inland waterways al
ready of great importance. are beinf
still further developed. The eXistins
canal through Bavaria connecting tbs
Rhine and Danube. Is TO be enlarged
as a ship canal. The system of canals
and canalized rivers from the Nortf
sea, is also being extended through
. Bohemia to the Danube. A further
great scheme to connect Riga, on th'
Baltic with the Black sea by similar
means through Russia has recent,
. been approved These routes. wher
completed, will enable submarines ant
destroyers to be brought across Flu
rope to the Black sea, where also
am pie shipbulding facilities wouit
exist through German occupation o
Odessa and the dock yards O
Nieolaieff and Sebastopol. If the Blaci
sea remains under the German con
troll, she can at any time by means o
submarines make the Mediterranean
) sea communications with Egypt highly
dangerous IL not almost impossible
A simultaneous land attack with {
Turko-German army of even moder
ate dimensions made from arounc
Aleppo. on Egypt and the Suez cana
would be irresistible
| TO- German, with the Bagdad rail
way working TO beyond Aleppo, ha:
gained nearly all she went to war for
She Is also in full control of FINLAND
and the Baltic sea and has annexe
the large and valuable Baltic pro
vinces. Germans are also forcibly ex
plotting the Ukraine region OF Russia
with 10000. 900 inhabitants and grea
resources of coal and iron. They have
the oil regions of Roumania anc
Baku. They are penetratin to Persis
and Central Asia to Great trouble fol
us in India. II Germany. still undo
feated in the field and with the mill
tary party able to show these spoils o.
war. is left free to consolidate hel
positions in the East. and develop thu
immense natural resources of Russia
there Is little chance of any lastini