Square Kilometres. Austria-Hungary 676,616 Balkans 215,585 Turkey 1,792,900 --------- Total 2,685,101 As the total plan aimed at the German direct or indirect seizure of 2,968,791 square kilometres, we see that, considered in that light, the goal of the 1911 plan has been reached in the South and South-East in the proportion of 89%, being roughly nine-tenths. Now I have shown (_pp. 52 and 56_) that Germany occupied or controlled early in 1916: In the West over 90,478 square kilometres. In the East over 260,000 square kilometres. We have just seen that in the South and South-East the German plan has been achieved over 2,685,101 square kilometres. Of course all the territories included in that last figure are far from having the same value, especially those of part of Turkey, but in that figure Austria-Hungary alone claims 676,616 square kilometres, that is, she alone represents a seizure, disguised it may be, yet not less real, which is infinitely more considerable than the German occupations in the West and East. From these calculations it clearly follows that the part of the Pangerman plan which concerns Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey, that is, Central Europe and the East, forms by far the main part of the Pangerman scheme. That is an observation of extreme importance for the Allies and for Neutrals, because of the world-wide consequences which flow from the scheme summed up in the formula, “From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf.” These consequences will be stated in Chapter V. IV. The Pangerman plan of 1911 (_see map, p. 12_) included: 1º. The formation of a great German Confederation which was to put under the absolute supremacy of the present German Empire (540,858 square kilometres and 68 million inhabitants) foreign territories situated around Germany, which form a superficies of 1,182,113 square kilometres and hold 94 million inhabitants. The figures given (_pp. 52, 56 and 61_) suffice to prove that the German seizure of these territories extended at the beginning of 1916: Square Kilometres. To the West 90,478 To the East 260,000 To the South (Austria-Hungary) 676,616 --------- Total 1,027,094 Germany has therefore, so far as concerns the territories to be absorbed into the Germanic Confederation, achieved her programme in the proportion of 86%, or about nine-tenths.