CHAPTER VIII

GERMAN MANŒUVRES TO PLAY THE ALLIES THE TRICK OF THE “DRAWN GAME,” THAT IS, TO SECURE THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE “HAMBURG TO THE PERSIAN GULF” SCHEME AS THE MINIMUM RESULT OF THE WAR 158

I. The exceptional importance of the economic union of the Central Empires, and the danger for the Allies of establishing a connexion between that union and their own economic measures after the war, p. 159.—II. Reasons for the Turko-German dodge of making a separate peace between the Ottoman empire and the Allies, p. 167.—III. Why a separate and premature peace with Bulgaria would play the Pangerman game, p. 174.