ms by the Central Committee for
National Patriotic Organization of England:_
Great Britain can never willingly make peace with Germany until the
power of Prussian militarism is completely destroyed and there is no
possibility of our children or our children's children being forced
again to fight for the national existence. As far as we are concerned,
this is a fight to a definite finish. We must either win all along the
line or we must be completely defeated and our empire destroyed. Our
allies fully share the same conviction. The thousands of lives already
lost, and, alas! still to be lost, will have been tragically wasted if
the German menace remains to terrorize Europe and to stunt the progress
of civilization. In order to convince public opinion that the only peace
worth having is a peace absolutely on our own terms, a Central Committee
for National Patriotic Organization has been formed from the members of
all the four political parties. The committee will, in addition, take
steps to lay a clear statement of the British case before neutral
countries. Both the tasks it has undertaken are of the first importance,
and it should have the support of every patriot.
GERMANY'S PROGRAM.
_Professor Ernst Haeckel, the militant German zoologist, supplies, in an
interview in the Berliner Tagesblatt, the following summary:_
Freedom from the tyranny of England to be secured as follows:
1. The invasion of the British piratical State by the German
Army and Navy and the occupation of London.
2. The partition of Belgium, the western portion as far as
Ostend and Antwerp to become a German Federal State; the
northern portion to fall to Holland, and the southeastern
portion to be added to Luxemburg, which also should become a
German Federal State.
3. Germany to obtain the greater part of the British colonies
and of the Congo State.
4. France to give up a portion of her northeastern provinces.
5. Russia to be reduced to impotency by the re-establishment
of the Kingdom of Poland, which should be united with
Austria-Hungary.
6. The Baltic Provinces of Russia to be restored to Germany.
7. Finland to become an independent kingdom and be united with
Sweden.
_An article by Georges Clemenceau, in L'Homme Enchaine, reports the
following view of the German terms accredited to Count Bernstorff,
German Ambassador at Washington:_
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