OCR Text |
Show A PHASE OF THE WAR. One of the singularities of the maddest mad-dest war in, history is that neither side expects to accomplish much without crushing the other side absolutely. The Vossische Zeitung expresses tho German view when it declares that even the most brilliant military triumphs tri-umphs will be futile ' unless jGermany is ablo to possess herself immediately after the war of the raw materials she needs for manufacturing purposes. The German editor is afraid that the war may end with the allies still strong enough to deny raw materials to the manufacturers of the fatherland. For him, this is not an inducement to arrive at a peace by understanding. On the contrary, he takes the customary Teutonic Teu-tonic view that the allies, must be so thoroughly beaten that Germany can dictate dic-tate any terms that suit her, and can, by the same token, dictate what shall become of the world's raw materials. On the other side, the allied view is not much different. None of the entente en-tente statesmen can see a satisfactory emiing of the conflict that leaves Germany Ger-many with power to dictate anything. It is argued that unless Germany is crushed she will be able to entrench herself her-self commercially, as well as militarily, and will edge the allied nations out of the eastern European and Asiatic markets. mar-kets. A Germany strong enough to obtain ob-tain terms that would permit her to resume re-sume her foreign trade by land and sea could begin at once to rebuild her commercial com-mercial empire. In the name of her prosperity, Germany insists that all her enemies must be beaten into the dust, and they, in their turn, say the world will not be fit to live in, and that no prosperity other than German prosperity will be possible if she is not so crushingly defeated that she will be forced to throw herself upon the mercy or the victors. |