1. THE MASTERS Germans 73,000,000 2. THE VASSALS Magyars 10,000,000 } Bulgars 5,000,000 } 21,000,000 Turks 6,000,000 } 3. THE SLAVES French (about) 3,000,000 } Belgians 7,500,000 } Alsatians, Lorrainers 1,500,000 } Danes 200,000 } Poles, Lithuanians 22,000,000 } Ruthenians 5,500,000 } Czechs 8,500,000 } 82,000,000 Jugo-Slavs 11,000,000 } Roumanians 8,000,000 } Italians 800,000 } Armenians 2,000,000 } Levantines 2,000,000 } Ottoman Greeks 2,000,000 } Arabs 8,000,000 } ——————————— _Total_ 176,000,000 To sum up, seventy-three million Germans rule over twenty-one million vassals and eighty-two million slaves,—Latin, Slavic, Semitic, belonging to thirteen different nationalities,—who are bearing the most cruel and unjustifiable yoke that the world has ever known. It is undeniable, moreover, that each extension of Prussian militarism over a new territory has enabled Germany to prolong the struggle by obtaining new supplies of food, new reinforcements to press into her service and territory to exploit, new civil populations, whose labor is made use of even in works of a military nature. As a result, the technical problem now confronting the Allies in Europe is, through the mistakes of their former leaders, infinitely more complicated than at the outbreak of hostilities. To-day Berlin, by means of Prussian terrorism methodically and pitilessly employed, disposes of the military and economic resources of one hundred and seventy-six million people, occupying a strategic position in the centre of Europe which is all to her profit. It is this very state of things, founded on the slavery of eighty-two millions of human beings, which is intolerable. III