esent can foretell the outcome of the European War. If
the Allies meet with reverses and victory shall crown the arms of
the Germans and Austrians, German militarism will undoubtedly
dominate the European Continent and extend southward and eastward to
other parts of the world. Should such a state of affairs happen to
take place the consequences resulting therefrom will be indeed great
and extensive. On this account we must devote our most serious
attention to the subject. If, on the other hand, the Germans and
Austrians should be crushed by the Allies, Germany will be deprived
of her present status as a Federated State under a Kaiser. The
Federation will be disintegrated into separate states, and Prussia
will have to be content with the status of a second-rate Power.
Austria and Hungary, on account of this defeat, will consequently be
divided. What their final fate shall be, no one would now venture
to predict. In the meantime Russia will annex Galicia and the
Austrian Poland: France will repossess Alsace and Lorraine: Great
Britain will occupy the German Colonies in Africa and the South
Pacific; Servia and Montenegro will take Bosnia, Herzegovina and a
certain portion of Austrian Territory; thus making such great
changes in the map of Europe that even the Napoleonic War in 1815
could not find a parallel.

When these events take place, not only will Europe experience great
changes, but we should not ignore the fact that they will occur also
in China and in the South Pacific. After Russia has replaced Germany
in the territories lost by Germany and Austria, she will hold a
controlling influence in Europe, and, for a long time to come, will
have nothing to fear from her western frontier. Immediately after
the war she will make an effort to carry out her policy of expansion
in the East and will not relax that effort until she has acquired a
controlling influence in China. At the same time Great Britain will
strengthen her position in the Yangtsze Valley and prohibit any
other country from getting a footing there. France will do likewise
in Yunnan province using it as her base of operations for further
encroachments upon China and never hesitate to extend her
advantages. We must therefore seriously study the situation
remembering always that the combined action of Great Britain,
Russ