The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-28
Germany VIII Try To Negotiate
Compromise Peace.
Move in That Direction Expect
ed Soon by Entente.
COULD THEN PREPARE AGAIN
German Deputy In Austria De-
cIares for World Conquest.
Would Germanize America and
Asia as Well as Europe.

I Washington. Aug. 2s.-Germany
hopes to negotiate an early peace that
will give her an opportunity to reor-
ganize her resources for another great
war for world domination
This statement was made today by
a high entente diplomatic authority.
He held that reports Of a coming Ger
man peace offensive are not idle ru-
n1ors but rather a portion Of a well
laid scheme of the Prussiau war lords
to attempt to bring a cessation OF hos
tiIities.
Tempting offers will be made vari-
Gus nations of the entente, he says,
and there will be serious menace for
the entente morale II the advances are
seriously received
Diplomatic advices recently have
frequently quoted German reference to
the possibility of a truce in the west.
and of the after-the-war ambitions of
the military party. One Of the boIdest
statements to reach entente hands Is
that of Austrian Deputy Wichtl. lead
ing member of the German radical
party in the reichstag in address at
Windisch Feistritz-
Would Gcrmanize America and Asia.
Gable reports OF his speech quote
him as favoring such a close alliance
| between Germany and Austria that
the two powers would be one politi-
cally. socially. economically and for
military purposes He would also
CRUSH NI1G SLGCHO-S1OVdkS. 0lE1de the
Jugo-Slavs and then launch a gigantic
war to subdue America and Ger
mamie Asia
"Our alliance with Germany must
be such as is wanted by the Germans
Deputy WichtI asserted THE alli-
ance must be such that 1t will make
| one German house where but German
| will be spoken, but German ideas
thought and German battles fought
And then there shall be no longer
| two states but only one great Ger
many, then we shall wage a new war.
Then we shall deliver three mighty
| blows to he end of forcing our way
| to America, subduing the Orient and
establishing German power over japan
| and China
I'VE must decimatc the Slavs IN
their numbers and break them up.
vent Austria becoming a state of ma
| tons The JuGo-Slavs must be re-
| duced and dismembered into small
units. Portions of the Slovenes and
| the Croats must go to the Germans.
| We will give a 1rtion of the Sfovenes
| Croats and the Serbs will go TO the
Magyars and the rest shall be appor-
/ toned among the AIbanians, Greeks.
Rumanians and Turks" ~
Would Deport Czecho-Slovaks.
Austria sees a solution of the vex-
| ing Czecho-SIovak question in the
proposed deportation of the Czecho-
! Slovaks to Siberia where, the Pesti
| Hirlap Of Budapest declares, they
could enjoy the happiness of their
| Icing fought independent national ex-
| istence."
The Budapest article refers to the
! activities of the Czecho-Slovak troops
I in Siberia and the suggestion is made
that the dual monarchy unburden it.
self of the Bohemian and Slovak dis
content by giving the Czecho-SIovaks
| 4 part of Siberia and forcing them to
enigrate thither
| The dispatch also refers to an anx-
| iety in Austria for German and Mag
var prisoners in Siberia and the decIa-
! ratiou Is made that the central pow
ers should go to the rescue of the
| prisoners before the advance of the
I japanese army exposes them to the
! grave danger Of becoming war prison
| erS again.