1º. The establishment, under German rule, of a vast Confederation of Central Europe, comprising:
| Square Kilometres. | Inhabitants. | |
|---|---|---|
| In the West: | ||
| Holland | 38,141 | 6,114,000 |
| Belgium | 29,451 | 7,500,000 |
| Luxemburg | 2,586 | 260,000 |
| Switzerland* | 41,324 | 3,800,000 |
| The Departments of the North of France to the N.E. of a line drawn from the S. of Belfort to the mouth of the Somme | ||
| about | 50,271 | 5,768,000 |
| Total | 161,773 | 23,442,000 |
| To the East: | ||
| Russian Poland | 127,320 | 12,467,000 |
| Baltic Provinces, Esthonia, Livonia, Courland | 94,564 | 2,686,000 |
| The three Russian Governments of Kovno, Vilna, Grodno | 121,840 | 5,728,000 |
| Total | 343,724 | 20,881,000 |
| To the South-East: | ||
| Austria-Hungary† | 676,616 | 50,000,000 |
| These three groups form a grand total of 1,182,113 Square Kilometres and 94,323,000 inhabitants. | ||
| * Minus eventually the French and Italian Cantons which the Pangermans declare that they do not care to annex. | ||
| † Minus the Italian regions of the Trentino, which Berlin decided to cede (at the expense of Austria) to Italy as the price of her neutrality. | ||
This confederation was thus to group under German supremacy
| Square Kilometres. | Inhabitants. | |
|---|---|---|
| Actual German Empire | 540,858 | 68,000,000 |
| New territories of the Confederation | 1,182,113 | 94,000,000 |
| Total | 1,722,971 | 162,000,000 |
of whom only 77 millions are Germans and 85 millions non-Germans.
2º. The absolute subordination of the Balkan countries (containing 499,275 square kilometres and 22 millions of non-Germans) to the Great Central European Confederation. The Balkan States to become mere satellites of Berlin.
3º. Germany’s political and military seizure of Turkey, which was afterwards to be enlarged by the annexation of Egypt and Persia. It was provided that Turkey should be dealt with in two successive stages. During the first, the handful of “Young Turks” who have ruled the Ottoman Empire since 1908, and who play the German game, were to remain in power merely as figure-heads. Turkey was to retain a nominal independence during this phase, though in reality she was to have been tied to Germany by a treaty of military alliance. Under pretence of effecting reforms, numerous German officials were to be placed at the head of all the Ottoman administrations, and that would have paved the way for the second stage. The latter had for its aim the putting of Turkey, with her 1,792,000 square kilometres and her 20 millions of non-German inhabitants, under the strict protectorate of Germany, to say nothing of the subject provinces, Egypt and Persia.
The Germanic Confederation of Central Europe was to form a huge Zollverein or Customs Union. Treaties of Commerce of a special character imposed on the Balkan States and on subjected Turkey would have provided for Great Germany an economic outlet and reserved for her exclusively those vast regions.