Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1918, Page 5

THE KAISER AS | KNE First and Only Account Written of the Kaiser by an Ame (Continued from Page Three) | | ae Se _. SHAPTER XIII. = | The Kaiser at Army Headquarters. To what extent the kaiser is respon- sible for the failures and entitled to credit for the successes of his armies in the present war, I am not in a po- sition to say, but if he did not actually direct the military policy, he at least kept closely in touch with everything that was going on. From the very be- ginning of hostilities he lived the ma- jor part of the time at the great army | headquarters and was in constant con- sultation with his military leaders. | I had several opportunities to see | the kaiser while he was at the various | great army headquarters, : In the spring of 1916 I received a | long-distance telephone message from | the great army headquarters, ‘which was then in the palace of the Prince von Pless at Pless, to the effect that the kaiser wanted me to.go there. During the course of my work one of his private secretaries came in xe- peatedly with telegrams and messages | for the kaiser, and he would usually excuse himself and read them. Some- times he would be summoned outside to consult with important persons who were there to see him, but he was never gone more than ten minutes at a time. I did not think he looked exception- ally well. He seemed to-be very tired and he.had very little to say—in itself an inditation that he Was not exactly | ‘hen my work for the morning was over and his valet, who had assisted flaunel undershirt. It was the first time I had ever seen him in such a state of plebian negligee, and I receiv- ed more or less of a shock. I had been so. accustomed to seeing him in unt- form, both in pictures and in person, that it had mever occurred to me that underneath that symbol of pomp the kaiser probably dressed the same as we lesser mortals. I noticed incident- ally that when he put on his miltary coat he put it on right over his under shirt. Homburg was much nearer the fir ing line than Pless, although, of course, at a very safe distance.- I noticed, however, that here anti-aircraft guns had been planted, but apart from that there was hardly any more activity than there had been /at Pless. While walking down the corridor 1 was stopped by an officer and asked who I was, but, as a rule, I came and went without molestation and seldom had to show my pass, which one of the kaiser’s adjutants had given me and which permitted me to enter and leave oy headquarters for the whole year 7. When I was arin through the streets of Homburg, both coming from and going to the railroad station, in the kaiser’s motorcar, and the second-man, or bugler, on the front seat, blew the horn, people came running out of stores and from afar to get a view of the important personage who occupied the kaiser’'s own car! Many of them Salutéd me or raised their hats, and I Thought how angry they would have been had they known they were put- ing themselves to so much trouble to salute an alien enemy! thonght for America ever to take a eet Place in international poli- “You can’t expect the nations of the world to deal with America as they deal among themselves when the next change of administration may mean ‘the adoption of an entirely new forelgn Policy,” he declared. ere can be nothing le about the foreign policy of a nation whose leaders change every four years,” : ican party politics were a con- stant source of embarrassment to the kaiser. He always seemed undecided as to just how he should receive an American of prominence. If he hap- pened to be of the same political faith ag the administration, the kaiser was afraid to do him too much honor for fear of offending the opposing party, who might win the ‘hext election; and if he were/not of the same party as the administration, the kaiser feared to honor him lest more immediate re- sentment be stirred up in America. Thus he refused to receive Bryan on two different occasions when a Repub- lican administration was in power. He criticized very strongly, too, our election methods. “Instead of discussing principles, your political candidates exchange per- sonalities,” he said. “My people would be shocked at the sort of speeches and accusations which figure in all your political campaigns. Over here, noth- ing of the kind is ever heard.” The kaiser was very much interested in our negro problem. It seemed to have a great fascination for him, and he frequently referred to it. He told me that he understood there were me, had been excused, the Katser| |The ridiculousness of the whole | 15,000,000 negroes in this country, but gazed at me for 4 moment or two,and thing impressed me very much. For|they were dying off in great numbers then, apropos of nothing, burst out the moment I was part of the play| ‘rough consumption and ‘ther dis- with the rather remarkable apnounce- | ment: “The man who catastrople. on. the world,, Dayii should be strung up by the neck, that man is not I, as the world to think! The czar of Russia and che king of Hngland, when they were at | the wedding of my, daughter—guests | at my own house, fnind you, and my | blood relatives—hatched this : plot, against me, They were envious of my power, but they what that power 1s.” Pia | In the same breath almost he made | the inconsistent remark; ~“Hngland will never be able to ralge jan efficient | army; it took Germany done hundred | years to accomplish what she has done!” ‘< a . Some time after this, one of the big- gest Merchants in Berlin told me that he had heard on the stock exchange that the kaiser had made the remark | that the king and czar had hatched the plot against him, and as I had repeated the kaiser’s statement to no one, I realized tiiat he thust have told the same thing to others. If this ver- sion of the starting of the war was put into circulation with the idea of ab- solving the kaiser, it certainly didn’t carry conviction even among ‘the Ger- mans themselves. The merchant who spoke to me about it, ‘at any rate, made fun df the idea, and I never heard the point seriously raised by anyone else of influence. Before I left the kaiser that morn- | tug he spoke of the Anglo-French loan which had been floated in America and condemned us severely for coun- tenancing it. When I told him that Germany had-also floated a loan in | America, he replied: “But ours was | only $10,000,000, while theirs is $500,- 000,000!” to which I naturally rejoined | that the size of the loan could cer- tainly -not affect the question of our | neutrality in floating it. He criticized our bankers who han- died the loan, and when I asked him if he had ever seen the number of Ger- man names that appeared on the list | of bankers who were interested,in it, he said he hadn't read the list, but he | was quite sure there was one bank in New York which wouldn't touch it. | “That bank wouldn't touch anything that would be detrimental to Ger- many !” he added. Several months later I was called to Pless again and was shown to the same room I had visited on the former occasion. When the kaiser entered he stood erect, with his hands to his side, clicked his heels together and saluted me as a soldier Salutes a superior offi- cer, smiling as he did so, and I knew he was in gogd humor, | Nevertheless he had but little to say. His criticism of Mr. Wilson on this oc-' casion I have recorded elsewhere in these pages. In June of 1917, after,the great army | headquarters had been removedto | country than the German emperor. wi (was pleased to refer to as “my peo- “but whose approbation means jeems | everything, even to a monarch who) rules “by divine right.” CHAPTER XIV. , The Kaiser and Things American. ' Among the Germans generally there will now learn ) 1s a surprising degree of Ignorance re-| ding conditions in America. The untrayeled German has but the yagueést ideas concerning jour, people and our institutions. I have had patients of intelligence and education ask me how we are abe to cope with the Indians. In view of the extent of German emi- | Which’ was ever being made to im-| ,brought this press &nd awe those whom the kaiser | eases to which they offered but poor resistance, “The negro will always he a great | problem in your country, however,” he added. “They don’t mix socially with | the whites, and there will be constant friction. My brother (Prince Henry), when he returned from his visit to America, told me a lot about these negroes.+ Indeed, one of the most im- | Pressive things he heard there was a choir of negro voices. He said they | Sang some wonderful melodies, and | their voices were as clear as bells.” | After the war started, the kaiser referred to the negroes again. “Now is your chance to settle your negro problem,” he declared, half facetiously, of course. “If America insists upon gration to America and the vast vols coming into the war, why. doesn’t she ume of commercial transactions be- tween the two countries, it is almost unbelievable that such erroneous no- tions should prevail in these enlight- ened days, but they do. f This fact partially serves to explain how easy it was for the kaiser and his inspired press to pull the wool over the people’s eyes regarding the unim- portance of America’s entry into the war. It doesn’t explain at all, how- ever, how completely the kaiser him- self underestimated us and our power, for I doubt whether there is any for- eignet living, who has never visited America who knows more about our deed, he was more familiar with many of our problems than many of our countrymen, and he frequently reyeal- ed to me in the course of our conver- sations how thoroughly posted he was on American conditions, Long before the subject of forest conservation was taken up seriously in this country, the kaiser pointed out to me what a great mistake we were making in not devoting more atten- tion to it. “Can you tell me, Davis, why, you have so many forest fires in your coun- try?” he asked, after a particularly destructive conflagration in the West had destroyed many acres of timber. “How does it happen?” I explained to him that most of the forest fires came from sparks from locomotives. Careless lumbermen al- lowed the branches which they lopped off the trees to remain on ‘the grpund and when they were ignited ‘by sparks the fire sometimes spread to the uncut timber. As the facilities for extin- guishing fire in these unpopulated re- gions were practically, nil and the cli- mate made the timber particularly in- flammable, these fires usually attained serious dimensions, F p ; “That points out again the tmeffi- ciency of your form of government,” hb commented. “You have laws requiring the railways to use appliances to ar- rest the sparks from’ thei engines, haven't you? Why don’t yeu enforce them? Your people’ don't seem, to Homburg v. d. Hohe, and Krenznach | realize that it takes years to grow a (two neighboring villages) I was called | there to see the kaiserin, and three weeks later I went there again to see the kaiser. I noticed at the station the kaiser's private train composed of five dark green cars ppon each of which was plainly marked the imperial coat of arms. ‘The cars had special folding stepy. . ¢ Two rooms were assigned to me on one of the upper floors of the palace and my meals consisted of the same kind of food as I had always had be- fore the war, although the hunger epl- demic was raging throughout the coun- try. It was almost worth the trip for the sake of the meals alone. After I had treated the kaiser in the morning I went to my rooms, as I knew it would be three o'clock before he would be ready for me again. He never allowed anything to interfere with his after-dinner nap, \" After the kaiser had had his sleep, I was suthmoned to his dressing room. | He entered the room attired in a red tree. Because you have more than yop need today, you make no vr ration for tomorrow. For every tree cut down another should be planted. pid you don’t adopt some such measure fhe time will surely come when America will have to turn to Germany for tim- ber.” ; The kaiser was a harsh critic of our election system. Tha idea of a four year term for the president was nh urally repugnant to one who held such exalted notions as to the rights of rulers, It would be too much to ex- pect the Hohenzollern mind to approve of a constitution which provided for the ruler’s return to private life after a period of four years at the head of the government. ~-_ a He declared that with a constant change of administration it. was quite out of the question for this country to follow any definite policy, It was bad enough even so far as internal affairs were concerned, he sald, but Such _a system made it injpossible be send her negroes across and let us Shoot them down?” When a fleet of our battleships vis- ited Kiel some six years ago the kaiser paid them a visit and was very much interested. When he called to see me shortly afterward he told me of his , experience, ' “I went over the ships from top to bottom,” he declared. “They are ex- cellent vessels, every one of them, and I was ‘very much impressed with the way they are manned and officered. I have only one criticism—the lattice- work conning towers, or fighting masts. The only possible use I can) ‘them and install an elevator inside, | and serve tea in the aftefnoon to the ladies on top—the most beautiful place for serving afternoon tea I can imag- ine, “But, seriously speaking,” he went on, “I can’t see that these masts have any, practical value. On the contrary, T.can see very serious disadvantages ,in then) No matter what nation you ‘might be fighting, your enemy would always be able to recognize you at a distance, before you could identify Kim, because the warships of all other nations look very much «like at a dis-. tance, § “They bay these conning towers are armed,” he went on, “but you would never get close enough to your enemy to use such small guns, Again, if one of those masts were hit it would send a shower of steel about the heads of the men on board, and would not only put many of them out of action, but Y ould be in the way, Suppose, too, | the mast were struck down and hung) over the side? It would drag through the water, and would not only serious- ly impede the vessel, but if would cause the ship to list and expose a larger area on one side than would be safe. No, Davis, your fighting masts, as I have said, might answer first-rate for serving tea, but I don't think much of them for active service." ~~ But if the .kalser saw much in American ways ‘and customs to con- demu, he Ukewlsq@ saw much to com- mend, and, before the war, he was liberal in his praise of many pf our qualities and achievements, He, was very much interested, for instance, in the \ its and dis- coveries of Luther Burbank. To make ermany self-supporting as far as 90d resources were.concerned was one of his dearest ambitions. He realized it in the event of a world war his %ople would .probably suffer more lack of food than they would from hostile byllets, and he was hoping hat he would he able to obviate that gondition before his country was put the test. He was constantly preach- Ing, simplified @let and the conserva- tlon of food reserves, and he had great hopes | (penes ARPES to, help, solve general food problems, _ v attending din- ners given him by his officers, his wishes respecting simple menus were See in them would be to train vines on | Twain, and he followed one or two of the American monthlies and weeklies more or less regulurly, He told me that, one evning while in his sitting foom in the Berlin palace, reading something In an American magazine, he ran across a story which caused him to laugh’ s0 much and so loud that the ladies of the court, who heard him in an adjacent room, came running in with their knitting to see what the matter was. The kaiser had little respect for our architecture. He thought our sky- Scrapers, of which he had seen illus- trations, were hideous. “How-terrible to desecrate the land- scape with such tall buildings,” he commented, “They hurt the eye. How can people live in them?” I explained that most of the build- ings to which he referred were office buildings, but that we did have four- teen and fifteen-story apartment houses and hotels, and even higher. ones, in which the upper floors were used for living purposes just the same as the lower ones. He couldn't believe it possible that people would consent to live so far above the ground, and from his own aversion to visit a place that was even one story above the ground floor, I rather got the idea that he was afraid of height, Under the building laws prevailing in Germany no build- ing of more than five stories may be erected. Perhaps the quality that he envied most in us was our inventive genius. {Vhen Orville Wright was flying at Lempelhofer Feld, in Berlin, in the early days of aviation, the kaiser could not restrain his admiration. “I wish I could encourage my people to become great inventors, such as America has produced,” he declared, tather hopelessly, “t admire your wonderful inventive genius.” ‘The kaiser objected very much to the fact that many of the foreign opera singers were attracted to New York by reason of the fabulous sums paid them at the Metropolitan opera house. Despite the fact that the kalser ae cused us of spending our money too lavishly, he repeatedly charged the English as well as oursel¥es with be- ing money-worshipers. “The Anglo-Saxons worship mam- mon, and they try to gloss it all over with a show of religion,” he said. “Your rich “Americans have s6 much money, Davis, that they really don’t know what to do with it. Why, re- cently oné of your millionaires saw my castle af!}Corfu and sent one of his Tepresentatives to the court with the presumptuous message, ‘Please tell the kaiser. that I will buy his castle at Corfu, and ask him what's his price!’ I had word.sent back that the castle was not for sale. The American then told my representative that he wouldn't take ‘no’ for an answer. The cheek of the man! He said he didn't care how much it cost. I sent word back to that man that there were not enough dollars in thé world to buy that castle. There are some things that your dol- Jars won't buy, Davis, and one of them is my beautiful castle at Corfu!" CHAPTER XV. The German People. The oath of allegiance which every | German soldier and public official takes binds him first to support the kaiser, with his life and his money, and then the fatherland. ‘That is what the kaiser referred to when he said, in the course of an ad- dress to a body of recruits at Pots- dam: “Body and sow you belong to me. If I command you to shoot your fa- thers and your mothers + you must follow my command without a murmur.” - The same thought is involyed, of course, in the kaiser's invariable use of the possessive pronoun, first person, in talking of the German people. He always says “my people,” never “the people.” The worst feature about it ig that not only does the kaiser pro- ceed upon the assumption that he owns thé German people “body and soul,” but the people themselves are willing to admit it. The Germans are the most willing vassals in the world. Veneration and awe of the kaiser are bred in the botie of the Germans. Even among the sociglists, who are not near- ly as opposed to the monarchial idea as is commonly supposed, there is strong sentiment of loyalty toward the emperor. True, the socialists are clamoring constantly for the reform vote and other political changes, but I doubt very much whether—before the war, at any rate—any large percentage of socialists would laye seized the op- portunity to dethrone the kaiser had i presented itself. Certainly any such attempt would have been speedily smothered by those who remained loyal, even without the ald of the military. 2 As long as the kaiser is able to up- tions of the world, so long will his people uphold him. They will stand behind him as long as he goes forward; they will repudiate him as soon as he turns back. They will acclaim him in triumph, but will not tolerate him in defeat. The kaiser himself realizes that his tenure of office rests upon victory. The war was started for the much could be dove in & |gake of world dominion; it has been | jeontinued solely to save the kaiser's throne. Coming into such intimate and fre- quent contact with the kaiser, I had a always carefully followed. | The kaiser enjoyed American bu- mor. He_ was very, fond “of Mark Wonderful opportunity to observe th relations which existed between him and his peanle. —-- : hold Germany’s place among the na- | : ‘ rican Unofficially Intimate With Him for Years, in Which the German E mperor Revealee His Real Self as He Did to Few Others Outside His Immediate Royal Circle; Inner Secrets of the Hohenzollern Dynasty Laid Bare by Royal Dentist : = | she. conduct of the people since. the | Polite vame for German stinginess, and war affords no safe riterion of their 1 have seen so many illustrations of normal views and sentiments. The the petty meanness of the German peo- activity of government agents and the ple that it seems idle to specify single power of the inspired press exerted {™Stances. : such a great influence on the feelings One of the first impressions I re- of the people that any outward signs ceived about the German people, when ot enthusiasm which they displayed I went to live among them fourteen must be liberally discounted. The |J&#'’. 880. was the lack of comrad demonstrations in favor of the kaiser ship among them. Clnss distinctions and his leaders since the war have 27@ drawn so fine, and there are so been more or Jess artificial, the crowd ™4"Y gradations, that it was almost being worked up by government agents J@pessible to find two Germans on the and the press accounts have invariably Se social plane. One was alw he magnified them, Before the war, how- other's superior. After my f ever, whatever acclaim the kaiser re- | ¥€#'s’ experience among these peoj ceived from the public came sponta- 2 cannot say. that that early impress! neously, and was. for that reason of | has been removed ; if anything, it ha greater significance, | Been deepened. I know that whenever the kaiser Anyone who has lived in Berlin, and called at my office great crowds gath- !8 familiar with conditions in other ered outside to catch a glimpse of him | European capitals, will bear » when he came out. They waited pa- | that the German policeman ts t tiently, sometimes for as long as an {arrogant police official in the world. hour, for the sake of greeting their His word is taken in court in prefer- emperor. Their conduct on these oc- ence to that of six civilians, and his casions showed very plainly that he Power is such that it might very had a strong hold on their affections. | be used oppressively; but stran The kaiser was their idol, and they |@moUsh, despite the cupidity of t were ready to suffer any inconvenience | German character, graft and cor tor the sake of dolng him bonor. tion among the German police It was customary for classes, of | Other officials we practically school children to be taken to the Tier | knewn before the war. zarten from time to time to study the | Such were the people behind the zroups of statues of the kaiser’s an- ‘kaiser when the great war started. [ testors in the Sieges Allee. They usual- ‘Shall never forget the sent ts ex- y passed my house on thelr way to Pressed to me by private Individuals their object-lesson in patriotism. Some- ! every walk of life as the various times, when, the kaiser. was at miy | Phases of the war developed. aouse, I have seen these children halt- No measure that was taken by Ger- 2d in front of the place to await the ,™&by, no matter how atrocious or In- 2mperor’s departure, thelr teachers, no Comsistent with sthe world's idea Joubt, feeding that the youngsters what is permissible in civilized war- would gain greater inspiration from | fare, ever brought a word of condem 1 fleeting glimpse of the living mon- | D“tion frem the German public as a arch than they could possibly derive Whole, although, of course, th ‘rom a prolonged study of the statues Some notable exceptions. Th of his departed ancestors. | majority of Germans who di Most of my patients knew that the * these matters with me, however, not taiser visited me, and they never tired | Only defended everything Germany did, of asking questions about him. It wags | but complained because more rigorous ulmost impossible for them to believe | ™esures were not taken. chat they were tohave the privilege of |. Merely by way of exumple, and not sitting in the very chair which their because her suggestion was any worse taiser had occupied. | than hundreds of others raised by my “Does the katser actually sit in this | German patients, 1 may mention the very chair?” they would ask in incred- | SUrprising viewpoint expressed by the alous tones. “Does he ever talk about Coumtess Sierstorpff, a relative of Vi tnything? Please tell me what he said Henckel-Donnersmarch. It was after the last time he was here.” |Italy had joined the allies and when 1 a Gaviiai cies gill oh m Thad German resentment against thut new German of in tion ran very high. engaged attracted the kaiser’s atten! «gynat we should do at the very first tion, and he was gracious enough tO) available opportunity,” she declared, mpabe bands sien: See ee had “is to destroy every. single work of art ne girl e] ¥ y 4 o ser had grasped and said she wouldn't ey Seaee ae epee OF, hee wash it for a week! “Just to think, this hand has grasped the kalser's hand! When I tell my family about it tonight they Hevg it!” ; The fact that the kaiser condescend- Germany !” ea a4 acrnou gan the plaudits ls a . Did the German people countenance hand aa Gisea as Scort vat tie gra- the submarine warfare and the slaugh- plnuesked and Sidances: their god was ter of innocent women and children, in smiling on them ana thei gratifica- defiance of all rules of international tionwent overwhelming. Jaw and tlie dictates of common hu- To maintain this state of veneration mans? phrase eg es * Was one of the kaiser’s principal. con- giy9 enough! It was absolute fo’ cerns. That was why he never ap- not a crime, they said, for G peared tn public except in £01] uniform to prescribe safety lanes for neutra why he always rode a white horse! vessels to use, The whole world should Hee eee aise of ar oat have been declared a war zone, that i Ls , | death and destruction might be dealt 1 are, allowed to he, circulated alWays | wherever and whenever the opportun- showed lim to the very best advan- >) iled tage; why every case of lese \najekin | eee ner ee tea ppcocaas (ape “a was punished with the utmost severity) who wantiredt within vkhee ot a Ger why, in short, every possible precau-/ 11) gun, on sea or land, should be tion was taken that the exalted ideas) snot That was the universal acnti- which the public held regarding thelr vent kaiser should never be undermined. The suggestion that/a continuation With this spirit of devotion dominat- of the submarine warfare would tn- {ng the people generally, Jt was Only) italy bring America Into the wer to be expected that they should have! qiq ‘not perturb the people in the stood solidly behind their emperor slightest, when he sought to achieve the one)“ wo. ear Tiinniite' Wo sit roore Harm ambition of. his Mfe—his dream of} 0 ‘she ts as doin ic07 acait’ world dowsiniae. “American bullets are shooting down ThereJs, no, Aeubt.thal the, war wa our men, American food is sustaining Planned and made possible by the mill-| (1. enemies. American dollars ure tarists and the junkers, and that every working against us fo every ponsible effort was made to couceal from the! +2," ret America come into the war people fs) ree} parnpep, and uitinate) id give us a chance to puy her back goals, byt. Jf anyone _Imagines. that the for what she has done to us, She people at large would have held back couitin’t beem us any more if xhe were had they realized the truth, he fails to a eiflaereat Wh F lavinw her’ to. ce understand the underlying spirit of the matt eatat: aha i unpeatbad a sha are the ‘most quarrel- The Jubilation with which the news some people in the world, It Is mis- ° the sinking of the Lusitan leading to. speak of the German mut S¢lved by the German ps tarists. All Germins are millitarists, Ctl Tt was so signifi The records of thelr clyil courts tell Heve Amertea would have dee the story. In 1018 there were no ie para Sts : oc magia G i than 6,000,000 petty cages tried in the sae orth Sekar arte saaily and un- na- Jandmarks or art treasures should be left standing. Then when the war is over and Italy no longer derives the enormous revenue she has been col- won't be- | jecting for years from tourists, she will be sorry for what she has done to ‘ ple was gen- at that | Yolved at Jeast two parties, the aston- failse’ a" Wsle valde on Topen to ishing fact is disclosed that some 10,- 000,000 Germans, or one-seventh of the evoked similar demonstrations. That the views which the people entire population, appealed to the courts in a single year! held regarding the conduct of the war The bellicose character of the people Were Bred spanences) id the pens was evidenced in countless other ways. Press, Which was absolutely contr It was the natural resylt of what 1 by the government, was only to be ex- belleve to be the wost pronounced na- Pected. The fact that in peace time thd tional shortcoming—selfishness. The sk ode germany, hee Decnape. the verage Ge! is the selfish in- 0s! able © world, made of it Average German Js tha most selfah tp: -' Varticuiarly valuable tool in tho dividual in the world, He thinks of OS woes cat de the if himself and his own comfort first, lust ue of. the’ government ia time ¢ and all ‘the time, I huve neticed it on the street cars, in the theaters, in the|. The German newspaper is gospel. to public highways, in the restaurantsand fhe people. The last word in any argu |hotels, where people congregate. Ment was always furnished by proof | Every one looked out for himself first Suppiled by some newspaper art | and pushed aside those who stocd Ja “Bs steht in der zeltung,” Uber translated, “The paper says » | | his way. In civil Ufe, just as in a state always final_and conclusive. the papers declared was too prey | of war, the German practiced the prin- ous to be belleved. The press was used to excellent ad- ciple that might makes right. Chivalry, courtesy, magnanimity sre vantage to conceal reverses and to make the utmost capital out of suc as foreign to the German makeup as | they are characteristics of the French. | A keen desire to make something out of nothing is another national trait of cesses. Right from the start the news- papers declared that Germany was fighting a defensive war; that the na- tions of the world had Jumped on othing or the Germans, if my observation has [been accurate, What is commonly re- “ferred to ux Germua thrift is only a CHAPTER Xvi. Germany in Wartime. » the ¢ r to “Der 1 bustle panic, Ger which sow t Obviously ignorance of th barons in order tl me as a comple and Is hud heard within the previ saw no reason why an ant ten y able (To be concluded tomorrow.) SALUATIONSTS | STAGE BAZAAR W OO ST Pleasure Seek rs 2 voted to Chape! 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