The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-09-10
CHAPTER TX.

s Tho kaIsers Plan for World Dominion.
- The history Of modern Germany is,
perhaps, in itself sufficient indication
OF the underlying plan of the Teuton
war barons to control tho whole OF
Europe and, eventually. the world. The
program has been slowly unfolding It.
self since the time Of Frederick the
Great and the present generation 10
now witnessing what was intended to
be the climax.
There can be no doubt that II Ger
many had succeeded in her efforts to
gain control Of the major part of Eu.
rope she would have soon looked
toward the western hemisphere and
the east.
This program 10 fairly indicated BY
the course Of events as history lays
them bare, but have the actual word
Of the kaiser to substantiate 1t.
At one Of his visits tc me shortly
after the beginning Of the war we were
discussing England's participation In
It.
What hypocrites the Engiish arel"
the kaiser exclaimed.
They had always treated me @
well when visited them mover be-
heved they would have come into this
war. They always acted as IL they
liked me. My mother was English,
you know. I always thought the
world was big enough for three Of "
and we could keep 1t for ourselves
that Germany could control the cont.
nent Of Europe, England. through her
vast possessions and feet, could con.
troll the Mediterranean and the far
east. and America could dominate the
western hemisphere"
How long 1t would have been before
Germany would have tried to wrest
Z dominion from England can readily bs
imagined. and with the whole of Eu.
IOpe and the far east under her thumb
America would undoubtedly have
proved too npting a morsel for the
Saiser's or his descendants rapaclous
NAV to have resisted. He said that
he believed that the world was "big
enough for thres;" he didn't say 1t
was too big for one.
What was really in his mind. how
ever 's indicated by a passage In an
aoeI>- he made some twenty-five
years ago, In which. as Rev. DIR. New
ell Dwight Hills has pointed out, be
used these words:
"From my childhood have been un-
der the influence of FIVE men-Alexan-
der, Julius Caesar, Theodore III, Ma
poleon and Frederick the Great. These
hve men dreamed their dream of q
world empire: they failed. am |
dreaming my dream Of world empire,
but / shall succeed"
The kaiJer's plan to dominate Eu- |
rope Included the control of Turkey,
and he made every effort to strengthen !
that country so that she might be q |
valuable ally In the war to come.
When Italy took Tripoli from Tur-
key before the Balkan war I men, !
toned to the kaiser how Opportunely
Italy had acted, but the kaiser dis
missed my remark with an exclamas-
ZION. Of displeasure, realizing, Of
course. that Turkeys loss was in
sense his own since he had planned to
make Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German of.
ncers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu.
itions. With an eye to the future.
<R he had constructed the great Bag
dad railway. n
When the Balkan war byoke out in
1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German.trained Turkish arm,
would acquit itself creditabIy and
that In the outcome Of that conflict his
European program would make cor i'd
cradle progress. He told me that he
had map Of the war area placed in
his motor and that with pegs he fol-
lowed the fortunes of the flghting
armies while he was travelling. =,
The Turkish defeats were naturally
Q great disappointment to him.
These Montenegrins, Serbians and
Buigarians are wonderful lighters" he
confessed 70 me. shortly after xhe war
began. They're out-of-door people,
and they have the strength and STAN
5pa which fighters require. If they
<Sep on the way they're going theyrr1
kp .Gonstantinopie In week. Con.
those Turksr,Ryve furnished
CUPS and q AQitrsn and
Afteir ofiicera Ssnay won't
sPy xSrts sysssr f34 done
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