German plans for the next war . mobilize it in Europe for a war againstEngland and France. Since Germany cannot unite the Serbs toherself by treaty, and since it was necessaryto get Serbia out of the way, Germany dehb-erately planned to reduce her to a state ofcomplete innocuousness from which she couldnot recover in a half century, if ever. Wetherefore witnessed in the fall and winter of1915, the complete immolation of Serbia on thealtar of German ambition. Of the four and ahalf million of people, about one and a halfare dead, one million are in exile or in thearmy, the others deported into A
German plans for the next war . mobilize it in Europe for a war againstEngland and France. Since Germany cannot unite the Serbs toherself by treaty, and since it was necessaryto get Serbia out of the way, Germany dehb-erately planned to reduce her to a state ofcomplete innocuousness from which she couldnot recover in a half century, if ever. Wetherefore witnessed in the fall and winter of1915, the complete immolation of Serbia on thealtar of German ambition. Of the four and ahalf million of people, about one and a halfare dead, one million are in exile or in thearmy, the others deported into Austria andBulgaria and undergoing a S3^stem of unscru- Calais-Bagdad Not Hamburg-Bagdad 73 pulous annihilation. The country itself hasbeen turned into a desert waste; women havebeen deliberately left to starve and freeze in Berlin*^ GERMANY •Warsaw RUSSIA ^-:^/•s. \ K U b N yieiririchssran *\^ _^.-».x* v \ ^ * Lemberg** ^ \. Vv 1 Kiev © y\(3)AUSTRIA- i*\A^. X—=•. X^ y,Nf ViennaerlandV^ /^. /^•v]Trent!*\. GEOGRAPHY OF SERBIAN EXILE The distances that Serbian exiles are sent preclude the possibilityof their easy return after the war the mountains with their babies on theirbreasts. Children on whose small shouldersrests the future strength of the state, havebeen viciously, deliberately murdered. Not onegeneration must pass but probably two, beforeSerbia can rise from the ashes; but by that 74 German Plans for the Next War time, in the German plan, it will be too late;the Oriental road will have been open longenough to have permitted the Turks andBulgars to fight in France, the next war willhave been fought and won. We therefore have, so far, an open routeby which three and a quarter million of Germanslaves can enter Western Europe. In Greeceof course, due to ties of kinship and autocracybetween the rulers, there is already a strongpro-German party, which, should Germanyobtain a Teutonic peace, will seize the reinsand again turn Greece over to the another
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