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Show The Bubble That Burst Prussia's Pan-German Dream AT THE time that Germany plunged the world into war four years ago, the area of her empire In Europe was 208,780 square miles larger than that of any other nation in Continental Europe save her vassal, ' Austria-Hungary, and Russia. She had a population popula-tion at home of nearly 70,000,000, while hi r colonial empire, exceeding million mil-lion square mlls, had an additional, population of more than 14,000,000. But she was not content. Germany, says a recent bulletin of the National Geographic Society, claimed as her right the following: "All of Europe save Portugal, Spain, the uninvaaeu portion of Trance, the British Isles and the as yet uncon quered portions of Russia. In brief, she wants in Europe l,l;M,090 square miles of the total continental area of 3,872,000 square miles and 270,000,000 of the 404,000,000 inhabitants. "All of South America save the two inconsequential colonies of British and French Guiana. Her aspirations in this sphere include more than 7.400,000 square miles of the total continental area of 7,570,000 square miles and 55,421,200 of the toial population of 55,779,000. "In Africa her modest claims embrace em-brace 6.S40.000 squnre miles of the total area of 1 1 ,022,000 square miles, leaving less than 5.000,000 square miles, largely desert, for her sister nations. The territory which Ger-mnny Ger-mnny claims in this part of the world maintains a population of 85,000.000 inhabitants. compared with only 57.000.000 for the remainder of the continent. "Cons: florin it the extent of the continent, con-tinent, ( Germany's Asian aspirations would ieem amazinply conservative for her, were it not that much of the land to which she waivr-s claim is. l.ke thai in A frira. an unproductive waste. With Russian Turkestan India, China, vassal Turkey, and the Mohammedan realms of I'ersia and Afghanistan the areas which she wants the Central Empire would have 5.002,000 square miles of this continent, sustaining a population of approximately 775,000,000. And there should be added to these figures the Dutch East Indies, Germany's by right of might of larger nations over smaller neighbors 735,000 square miles and 48,000.000 people. "All of Australia.' with an area of 2,974,581 square miles and a population popula-tion of nearly 5,000,000 people. Teuton Teu-ton expectations in this continent have been revealed very recently In the unblushing un-blushing confessions of Herr Thysson. "Of North America the 1'un -Germans profess to covet only Cuitfi, Central Cen-tral America and Canada at the present pres-ent time, hut some of her fu' u fists see 'the American people conquered by the victorious German cpirit. so Unit in a hundred years the United States will present an enormous German Empire.' Em-pire.' However, Cuba, the Central American republics and the British Dominion would add 13,500,000 to the popula tion of Germany -Over-A 11 and an area equal to more than eighteen (lines her European empire at the outbreak out-break of the world war. "Tims it will he pnen that the lands and peoples which German stareHmrm and would-be empire builders actually claim as their rlht equal 211,000.0'JO seuuro miles-, or more than fine-half of the oarth'd surface, and 1,245,000.003 inhabit an ts three-fourths of all tli9 people on the ;:lobe. "If we should add to these figures the United Spates, eoncerning which certain bold Teutonic spirits have already al-ready expressed t hpi. -elves, and .he R ii s i ;i ! Ei.ipire, whi. -h Oe: many undoubtedly un-doubtedly will .si;hiui.v '. nnJos.s America Amer-ica and the En'r-rte All-'es c-arh her, I he g rand to; u ,if K ulturl;. rd w on id l.e lu.0''0,0''0 f-'-pj.'i vc in ijes. more t hun 70 per cent of t he e:tn h's land area, find 1.45!i,0ui.ooo people, u H hum m being.- who breathy save 27,000,000." |