Show GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR STUDY SPANISH i i Rumor Is Current Th That t T Tu u tons Have Eye on South t America s s l By Bo United Press A ft h v i iTHE THE HAGUE March 18 By Bo Bj Malli l Ruin Ruin for years to come s 5 J Ji i or loses the war ivar is Gennan Germanys Germany's teror ter- ter i- i joI I This t fear fearis ar is responsible for tor the the- there repeated re- re re 1 tentative ve peace overtures s f from P 1 I not z man German sources The country is starving yet though unquestionably It I. Is suffering It is not exhausted or or- or r. r jj 1 near exhaustion It can continue fightIng fight fight- Ing log at least defensively almost Inde 1 Ev Even en in a state of ot bankruptcy bankrupt so far as its relations relations' with foreign countries are conce concerned ned it could fight on for a a. long time living meagerly on Its ts own reso resources T i f r It Is harder arder to get a accurate curate V t tion on from Germany e every ery day but bu butOr 10 or less news still leaks across the C 1 7 and these statements are ma made niad lf on excellent authority v 1 The consensus of opinion 1 1 Ger 1 1 man business leaders leaders- is understood to tobe be that commercial conditions will not b be altogether r hopeless If tho the w war j. j can can cant 1 t be bo en ended led by the summer of 1916 j 4 What VInt terms the government would accept Is not known definitely outs outside d f the innermost circles at Berlin Berlin- The war party's attitude is German occupied territory will be kept by Germany as a matt matter of J r f P 1 course 1 Nobody here believes Chan- Chan von Hollweg Bethmann-Hollweg has any ny t such idea though he does not appear to have considered it safe yet to tell tell- the militarists militarist's so 50 Financial and shipping magnates magnate c generally would be he ready to give up up everything but hut Poland What they particularly want Is to keep Yar Warsaw 7 and Lods especially the latter because being the Pitts burg of continental Eu roi rope rope- it would of great trade ad vantage van van- f tage tago to them f t c V One Ono thing for which ll the e Gorman i leaders evidently intend to make a atre- atre tre tremendous bid after the war Is Is South Americas America's trade At all all all' German internment intern Intern- ment mont and prison camps the captives I j nearly to the last man are stud studying ing Spanish It is taken for granted that vigorous rigorous efforts will also be made to reestablish re ie lish Ush German interests in China F For r some home reason however the conclusion t 1 seems to have been heen reached that that South South America will prove either an easier or a amore amore I more profitable fi field ld At any rate it itIs itIs Is for the latter that the tho most energetic energetic ener ener- getic linguistic preparations are being I m made |