Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-21
Us Africa has 'llodest claims en-.

III Africa her modest claims EN-
brace 6.s40. 900 square miles of the !
Total area OF li.692.ceo square miles,
leaving less than 5,ooooeo square
miles. largeIy desert, for her sister
nations The territory which Ger
many claims in This part of the
world maintains a population of So
aoO GOO inhabitants. compared with
Ionly 57.ooo,oO0 for the remainder of
1.-THE continent.
considering the extent Of the con
;inene Germany's Asian aspirations
jwould seem amazingly conservative
Tor here, we're il not that much Of
India, China, vassal Turkey and The
Mohammedan realms Of Persia and
lAfghenistan the areas which she
wants-the Centirl Empire would
have 5.6e2 600 s. miles Of this
continent sustaining a population OF
Approximately 775,OO4OoG And there
should he added 10 those figures the
Dutch East indies, Germany's by
irish, &c tho might ef larger nations
,vec am4llee neighbo 735.o90
SQUARE miles and $4,000. 0a0 neople-
4tl Of Australia, HitA m area ct
f. a74.59t square mile and popula-
lion Of nearly 5oo0.eo1 peeple Teu-
fton expectations in this continent
Have been revealed very recently in
The unblnshing eonfessians Of Harr
Thrsaon. who is quoted also here in
ifhis article.
Aspirations IA Norlh America.
@of North Anie7iea ihe Pan-GeF.
imeas profess to cove only cubs.
Ger al America and Canada a; the
iHreaert tt.pe but some Of her fntur.
fs sca the American neeple conquer
ol hy the victorious German spirit,
80 ihs n hundsed ye1rs the Unit
ID sates will presea 40 enormous
iGsrmaa Empife. Hoyeyzr. cubs. tae.i
Central American republics. aud the
Bsitish Daminiona weulG add 19.50Q,-
900 to the population Of Germany
,ovar-All and an area gual to more
than IS times her Eu pean empire
= the outbreak or ese void war.
THUS it viii De seen hlt iAa lands
aud copies which German 5tataFmen
and would-be empire builders actually
ciasm az their right equal 29ooo,G0o
square miles, or more han one-hal
of the oarths surface and t245.0Oo,
Geo inhabitants three-f9uIths OF all
the people on tho globe
III we should add to these figures
the United States. concerning which
cortain bold Teutonic spirits have all
ready expressed themselves, and the
Russian Empire. which Germany IN
doubleday viii subjugate unless Amer
lea and the Entente Allies crush her,
the grand total of Kultarand would
be 40,GO0,000 square miles more than
10 or cent OF the earth's land area,
and 1,45e 100000 people all the hu-
man beings who breahe save 49,
le6a,0oo.
What Gargantuan structure com
pared with The pigmy Roman Empire
in It's most extensive h9nr under Tro-
jan. waen It's subjecf numbered q
hundred million and the word of It's
Emperor was law over 1871 600
square milesl And Low Alexander
would have wept with chagrln at the
puny confines of his 2f7oo0o square
miles Of territory in the light OF this
Brobdlngnagian German dream Of
conquest
The Kaisor's Worship OF Ruthless
Conquerors.
! and by far the most diabolieal as
,rect Of this craving f-e world power
iis the fact that il has never occurred
to the Prussian mind 10 acquire inllu-
ence through helaluness to others.
Always Il is the sword of the con
lquesor which beckons the Kaiser.
This assertion is not infe1ential; il
is based on the avowed statement of
1.-The German war lord himself who
boasts thus: