Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-11 | Page 2 | What Germany Might Consider

UTliiif MIGHT CONSIDER, The two things most thoroughly thorough-ly demonstrated thus far in the war are: First, that England's sea power cannot be broken, and that the British Empire has neither neith-er yet been shaken nor is likely to j be disturbed; while the second fact is that Germany's amazing power of organization and unified '. aaction, together with her advan- , tages due to operating from an inner in-ner position, renders her practically practical-ly invincible, at least from the defensive standpoint, in a Avar on land. England cannot and will not give up the war while Belgium is cither directly or indirectly under German control. France cannot and Anil not give up the war with enemies intrenched upon French soil. The German authorities now understand that they are not to remain in Belgium or France. As a price of permanent peace, the3r would probably be willing to make some slight concessions to on France the Alsace-Lorraine frontier. As regards Russia, the most responsible Germans prob. ably no longer have am thought of holding Russian territory as spoils of war. But t'hey would 'like to create the Kingdom of Po land as a buffer state. Thev would also probably like to see Rumania gain something to the northward by taking back Bessarabia Bessar-abia from Russia, in order that the Russians might the more effectively effective-ly be kept from the Balkans arid Constantinople. Germany would undertake to find her own cprcu I pensation by securing the deve-l lopment of the Turkish Empire and to hold a position of recognized recogniz-ed leadership, not of formal rulersfhip, throughout the southeast south-east of Europe. Thus Germany is taking the Balkan campaign very seriousty, and is pushing the uncompleted parts of the Bagdad railroad system with intense en '--From "The Progress of the AVorld, in the American Review of Reviews for January, 1916.