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:

One of my friends in America informs me of a curious conversation between an influential banker and the German Ambassador, Count Bernstorff.  The banker, who had just handed over a substantial check for the German Red Cross, asked Count Bernstorff what the Kaiser would take from France after the victory.

The Ambassador did not seem the least surprised at this somewhat premature question.  He answered it quite calmly, ticking off the various points on his fingers as follows: 

     1.  All the French colonies, including the whole of Morocco,
     Algeria, and Tunis.

     2.  All the country northeast of a straight line from
     Saint-Valery to Lyons, that is to say, more than one quarter
     of French territory, including 15,000,000 inhabitants.

     3.  An indemnity of 10,000,000,000 francs, ($2,000,000,000.)

4.  A tariff allowing all German goods to enter France free during twenty-five years, without reciprocity for French goods entering Germany.  After this period the Treaty of Frankfurt will again be applied.

     5.  The suppression of recruiting in France during twenty-five
     years.

     6.  The destruction of all French fortresses.

     7.  France to hand over 3,000,000 rifles, 2,000 cannon, and
     40,000 horses.

     8.  The protection of all German patents without reciprocity.

     9.  France must abandon Russia and Great Britain.

     10.  A treaty of alliance with Germany for twenty-five years.

Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, late German Colonial Secretary of State, has published an article in The Independent, in which this forecast appears: 

1.  Germany will not consider it wise to take any European territory, but will make minor corrections of frontiers for military purposes by occupying such frontier territory as has proved a weak spot in the German armor.