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Show IF DEFEAT SHOULD COME. From Otto Robel. a professor of Heidelberg, one of the British prisoners prison-ers of war who escaped obtained this statement of Germany's war alms: "Nictsche's doctrine of the survival of the fittest has long been accepted as gospel truth in Germany, and it is a doctrine that is now being put to the test. We, as a nation, prepared for the inevitable struggle for supremacy among the nations, and we would have been fools if we had permitted our-:-i Ives to drift blindly along in the belief that a great war between civilized civi-lized peoples of the world was unthinkable. unthink-able. "Every German worthy of the name knows these fact, and knows them to be true In the closinc days of July. 1914. we watched with amusement, the frantic effort.- of Britain to avoid a conflict We were convinced that the time for war had come, and that it would be all over before the end of the year." Professor Robel was asked by the prisoner. "What are your aims and aspirations as-pirations now1'' "They are the same as they have been from the start," he responded. "We shall yet defeat our enemies, and nothing less than victory will satisfy the nation All this talk about Germany Ger-many wanting peace Is mere bluff?" "When victory comes to us. as come it will, the world will discover that we have not the slightest intention of civ-ing civ-ing up Belgium, for the possession of which so many of our gallant sons have shed their blood. France and Russia will also lose portions of their soil, and Britain will be forced to hand back our colonies. The freedom of the seas will also be established to our satisfaction, and the mighty German empire, having proved itself the greatest great-est power in the world, will fully assume as-sume the hijrh place to which it has been called by destiny" There you have a frank confession. which wo believe more accurately outlines out-lines tho German ambition than any other admission winch has come from Berlin since t he beginning of the war. But what will be Germany'.? conception concep-tion of the freedom of the high seas? Our opinion is that one of the first moves the Germans will make, if they succeed in their fight for world domination domi-nation will be to notify tho weaker nations, na-tions, such as Brazil and Argentina. ' i that they must not trade with the United States except under cortain regulations which they will proscribe. That would be German freedom of the seas it would put all nations, j outside Germany in chains. |