military German intervention was generally expected. Against all
expectation nothing of the kind happened." ... "When the Russian
Government finally got control the Russian troops treated the
rebels mildly and it was finally the sparkling on the horizon of
five million German bayonets that hastened matters so well that
superficially, at least, order was re-established."

Speaking on the annexation of those provinces to Germany he says:

"There is no money to be seized in the East but
there is something which is of more value than
cash and that is lands, lands of colonisation for
new German peasants." And he points out that the
Baltic provinces are about the same size as
Bavaria and Wuerttemberg, but in Bavaria and
Wuerttemberg there are eight and a half millions of
inhabitants while the Baltic provinces support a
little over two millions.

"The Baltic provinces have always occupied an
important place in the thought and sentiments of
the German people. The public as a whole does not
inquire if it's true that only fifteen per cent of
the population is German. For the public they are
simply the German provinces of the Baltic and the
German people are right, because since seven
hundred years the proprietors of the land there
are Germans and the civilisation has always been
German."

Should Germany be allowed to seize these provinces, to increase
her population and man power enormously, a second great war like
this one will not be far off and Russia, deprived of what Peter
the Great called "His window on the Baltic," will lose her place
as an European Power.

The Germans will endeavour, during any peace negotiations, to
keep their troops there in the hope that they will be permitted
to occupy these provinces or that, if a vote should be taken to
determine to which country the inhabitants wish to be annexed,
the latter would be coerced through the German landlords, and by
the use of money and terror made to appear as desirous of
annexation to Germany.

Prince Muenster, who had been in this section during the war, told
me once how easy it was to observe that the more prosperous
sections of the population were German and how anxious these
people were to become Germans. In this case I think he was right
to the extent that the feudal landlords of the Baltic provinces
believe that as Prussian Junkers they would have a greater