New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 5

CONVICTION OF HUN BY OWN TESTINONY Harvey O'Higgins, Writer, Col- Jects Evidence Against Mad Kaiser (This story is an extremely impor ant. one it beyond Guestion out of Germany's own mouth that she is guilty of having caused the war.. Mr. O'Higgins was asked by the Committee an Public Information to prgpare this article for the Division of Byndiecate Features both on account of his official position on the commit- tee and his popularity as a writer of #lays, magazine articles and short gtories. He has summed up and pre- ‘¥onted the evidence convincingly.) because proves It has come at last. After protesting { [ | | | the ally innocence and brazenly denying guilt | four years crime against Germany has civiliza- for nearly admitted her tign. & Bhe has done #mbassador in England, Prince Lich- nowsky. Fe hes been corroborated by & former dircctar of the great Krupp €un factory, a Dr. Muhlon. And the trutih of their testimony has been sub- stantially admitted by the man who was Germany's foreign minister when Prince Lichnowsky was German am- sadov in [London—namely, Herr Jagow. The documents in Bsen obtained by the State Depari- ment at Washington and translated fram the German. They are complete and convinecing After setting forth all the damning evidence against Germany, Prince Lichnowsky sums it up: 3 “Flirst We encouraged ‘ount Herchiold (the Austrian foreign min- ister) to attack Serbia, alhough no German interest was involved and the danger of a world war must have been known to nus. Whether or nat knew the text of the Austrian ulti- matum to Serbia makes no difference whatever. “gecond. We rejected aln’s plan of mediation between the 234 and 30th of Juiy, 1914. We did this after Mr. Sasanof (the Russian foreign minister) Had emphatically declared he could not tolerate an attack on Serbia after Berbls, upan pressure from Russia and England, had accepted nearly the whele of the ultimatum, all but two pointg, in themselves not hard to ad- juet; and even after Count Berchtold (the Austrian foreign minister) was ready to be satisfied with the Serbian answer. “Third. On the 30th of July, with Count Berchtold willing to listen reason, befere Austria was touched, on the mere mobilization of Russia, we sent our ultimatum to Russia and on the 31st of July we declared war on Russia, although the Czar had pledged his word that long as negotiations were going on not one man would be sent on the march. Wo thus delib- erately destroyed every chance of a praceful settlement. “It is no wander that in the pres- ence of these indisputable facts the whole civilized world outside of Ger- many lays the entire ‘hlame for the world at our door Is it not nat- ural that our foes declare they will not rest until they have destroved a system which a perpetual menace to its netlghbors? Must they not otherwise fear that In a few years they will again the casc Great in the davs Brit- is be compelled to take up arms and see | cities | their provinces overrun, thetr and. villages laid waste?” Dr. Muhlon's Evidence. Dr. Muhlon, of the board of Krupp's directors, does not make a summing up, tihe middle of July, 1914, he had a business conversation with a director of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin, who ndvised him that the bank would not sssist Krupps in “certain large trans- actions in ‘Bulgaria and Turkey' be- zause the political situation had “be- come very menacing” and the Deusche bank would have to wait ‘efore entering into any further en- gagements abroad.” This directoy of the Deutsche bank was Dr. Helfferich, since vice chancellor of Germany. He axplained: “The Austrians have just been with the Kaiser. In a week's time Vienna will send a very severe Jtimatum to Serbia, with a very short interval for an answer. * * * A whole series of definite satisfactions will be demanded at once; otherwise Austria-Hungary will declare war on Serbia." This is the ultimatum about which he German authorities have insisted they were not consulted. Dr. Muhlon continues: *Dr. Helf- rerich added that the Kaiser had pressed his decided approval of thrs procedure on the part of Austria-Hun- gary. He had said that he regarded 1 eonflict with Serbia an internal affair netween these two countries, in which 1e would permit no other state to in- erfere. If Russia mobilized, he would mobilize also. But in his case mobili- zation meant immediate wa ‘““This uncanny communication,” Dr. Muhlan says, ‘ronverted my fears ot « world war, which werc already strong, Into absolute certainty.” He tonsulted with Herr Krupp von Boh- en bimself, in Berlin. And Krupp sonfirmed the news. He said ‘‘that Kaiser had told him (Krupp) that Je would declare war immediately it Russia mobllized, and that t time people would see that he did noi turn ibout. The Kaiser's repeated insist- yce that this tfime noboay would be ble to accuse him of indecision had, ae said, been almost comic in its sftect.’ in the day when the Austrian ulti- satum to Serbia was delivered the Kniser was on a yachting trip ta the Worth Sea. That fact has often been wdvanced as a proof of German inno-: snce. But when Dr. Muhlor: read the unitimatum to Serbia he had an- sther interview with Helfferich, and he testifies that “Helfferich said to me hat the Kaiser had gone on his sorthern crulse only as a blind; he haa i be hrough her former | have { and the German press reported that a | of certain secrets seriously compromi | ment in the matter of the responsibil- | ity for the war { were then published either as a vindi- we | | | Beethoven { Constantinople, to| { “among flax and turnips, on horseback | leisure with reading and with writing Ay He merely gives evidence that in| © but and extengive scale, lose ut hand stant touch.” was remaining keeping in cou- Von Jagow's Admissions. And fi Herr von many’s foreigan minister t break af the war. Lichnowsky's startling by no means lent among us today a1l the mines for war: on the contrar, 3 Edward Grey's his earnest ment with war popular Belgium had field.” Von Jagow war might have been international conference bian situation. “We could not agree, ‘to English proposal of ambassadors. for it doubtless have led to a serious defeat For Italy. too, was and, with her Balkan in- stood rather opposed to Aus- That is to von Jagow that war was chosen by Ger- an alternative to an Interna- tional conference, which would have declared the Austrian demands on Serbia unjust even in the eves of Italy, of Austria and of Germany. How did these confessions come to made? Dr. Muhlon’s Conscience. With Dr. Muhlon it was evidently a case of conscience. When the war Legan he resigned his position as a director of Krupp's works, at Dssen, retired Krupp official living in Swit- land, near Berne. There he lived retired life. After a time reports began to circulate of statements which he had made to visitors, and he was put under the surveillance of spies from the Germany embassy at Berne. Later, members from the socialt party in the Reichstag visited him, Cer o~ Iy Jagow the in replying to Prince evidence, makes this admission, among other: 1 share the opinion preva- that England laid the outbreak of the helieve in Sir n na wish to arrive at an a Neither the lish people. a battle admits that by an the Ser- love of e was with the serve even werted on the at he 1 would diplomatic pro-Serb terests, tria admits many 1y conference say, st livinig in Swit- be in possession Krupp official “claimed to retired zerland ing the honor of the German govern- " The newspapers he- to hint that thiz official was out Dr. Muhlon's statements gan of his mind cation of him or as an exposure which should aid the democratic revolution in Gormany. With Prince Lichnowsky it is a dif- ferent matter. He is a nobleman of semiroyal lineage, “the sixth prince of the princedom of Gratz in Austria and Kuchelna in Prussia.” His grand- father was onc of Beethoven's patrons. wrote many of his works Lichnowaky castle at Gatz. where the pizno that he used is still preserved: and the present prince, Karl Max Lichnowsky, has carried on the tradition of culture and Hberalism which he inherited from his family. He was a brother officer of the present Kaiser in the Life Guard Hussars of Potsdam. but after a brief army carecr he entered the diplomatic service, and held important posts in Stockholm, Rucharest, and Vi- 1904, being out Junker atmo He was not in the enna He retired in of sympathy with the phere of the court. Pru ian, nor even German. family was Bohemian, and his has never been militavistic To his “great surprise,”” as he savs, e was offered {he post of German am- hassador to London in October, 191 after he had passed eight vears a Hi= mind and In my meadows,’ amusing his accasional political articles. “I do not know.” he says, “to whom my appoint- ment was due--at all events, not to His Majesty, as T did not belong to his immediate set, although he was always gracious to me. T belleve that they agreed on me because no other candidate was available.” Lichnowsky Made a Scapegoat. When, in spite of his efforts to pre- vent it, England was involved in war | against Germany, he returned to Ber- lin and saw, as he says. that he waa be made the scapegoat for tho catastrophe which our government had brought down on us, despite m advice and warning. [t was deliber ately given out, from official quarters, that I had let Sir Ddward Grey hood- wink me.” He retired to Gratz, smart- ing with this injustice, and there he prepared a memolr, called “My Mis- sion in London," for the private in- formation of his kinsmen and his in- timate political friends. Ot this memoir he had five or six typewritten capios made. One he sent to Herr Ballin, the head of the Ham- burg-American line; a second to Herr von Gwinner, the head of the Deutsche bank; and a third to Herr Theodor Wolff, editor of the Radical-Democra- tic newspaper, the Berliner Tageblatt. A fourth copy went to a friend, an afficer attached to the political depart- ment of the German General staff. This officcr appears to have mani- folded it on his own responsibility and sent copies ta various state officials and politicians. Tle did that, Herr Theodor Walff says, because “he felt the longing to serve the dictates of peace with complete devotion, and he surrendered himself to a pacifism which is absolutely incompatible with a military uniform.” He confessed to Herr Wolff what he had dane. It was impossible,”” the editor says, “to convince him by any logic or on any grounds of reason that his action was wrong, senseless, or harmful. He was a Marquis Posa, ar. stlll more, a Horatius Cocles, who, out of love for Rome or for mankind, sprang into the abyss.” One of his copies of the memoir reached the socialist newspaper Politi- ken in Stockholm and was published piecemeal. The German press took it up. The Reichstag debated it. Lich- nowsky was deprived of his diplomatic rank, forbidden to write for publica- tians, and virtually imprisoned in his home in Gratz. The newspapers de- manded that he he court-martialed. A typical letter, printed in the semi- official Cologne Gazette, demanded that he “be held up to public con- tempt ruthlessly.”” The writer argued: “What will our thousands of war cripples say when the affair is brought to their outraged notice? Have these men jovfully sacrificed their health anly to be told at this stage of thc war by a Prince Lichnqwsky that it was not necessary?” ingland’s Guilt a Fiction. Lon Jagow's reply to the prince only: ) admission | brouzht served to make His that on the German press. umphantly by cialist or “Let u The matters werse. England had not war enraged the Pan It was secized upon tr the Vorwaerts ablish the not popular in England; it also was not popular in Russia and France. RBut has become popular The whole world—right away across the Atlantic ana the Pacific—is united in hatred against We, however, have for almost faur years been inocu- lated with the view that ‘B land iaid all the mines which caused the war view which the Secretary of State (Von Jazow), in accordance with the evidence of the ambassador (Prince Lichnowsky), has now ciared to be false! .It is, however, this false view that the whole war policy of the German Empire has been directed-—from the declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, which brought us war with America down {o those chancellor speech which say that Belgium must not | again become England’'s aren mili- | tary concentration. Tf all the parties concerned were convinced that the belief in ngland’s guilt is a fiction, why did they feed this belief, and why did they pursue a policy which was based b7 And the Aper cluded: “The German people can not be satisfied with the methods of goy-| erning exercised before and during the war. * The German people | can only endure after fhe war as a peace-loving nation that governs it- self.” socialists. The so gan, says Lets. . war was de- by upan con- ermany’s Place in the Sun. 3ut the Lich- exposure conclu- of war. We have long believed Our German sympathizers have largely admitted it But they have pleaded that the Kaiser declured war only because war was inevitable; that Germany was denied her “place in the sun”; that a conspiracy of France, Russia, and Great Britain prevented her from obtaining colonies and ex- tending her trade: and that, con: quently, Germany had either to take up arms or be throttled to death by Great Britain's trade cnmity. Many of us have heen persuaded that thes excuses are true excuses: that the Brit- ish policy compelled Germany’s appeal to thossword, and that Britain's allies are merely “pulling Britain's chest- nuts out of the fire, the German propagandists are continually cha ing. Of those procured lies, Prince Lich- NoOwWs memoirs give a very happy disproof. Tt has heen pleaded that of France and England in was anti-German. Prince sk writes ““Our obscure policy in Morocco had repeatedly caused dis- trust of our peaceful intention, or, at least, had raised doubts as to whether our intention was to keep Europe in a state of suspense, and, on occasion, to humiliate the French. An Austri- an colleague, who was a long time in Paris, said to me. ‘The French had begun to forget “la revanche” (their ire to avenge Alsace-Lorraine.) You have regularly reminded them of it by trampling on their tocs.’ Af- ter we had declined Deleasso’s (the French minister's) offer to come to an agreement regarding Morocco and then solemnly declared that we had no political interest there, we sud- denly discovered in Abdul Aziz a ond Kruger. To him also, to the Boers, we promised the protection of the mighty German Empire, and with the same result. Both manifestations concluded, as they were bound to conclude, with a retraction, if we were mnot prepared to start a world war. * * * Our attitude furthered the Russian-Japanese and the Russian- Rritish alliances. In the face of ‘the German peril’ all other conslderations faded into the hackground. The sibility of another war between France and Germany had been eovi dent, and such a war could not leave out Russia or England, in 1870 * » * Before Delcasses fall, and fore the Algeciras conference, could have obfalned harbor bases on the west coast of Afric that was no longer possible.” In other words, according to man's ambassador, it was Germany's threat of war that united the Euro pean nations against her in Africa. It was not their union that led to the German threat England’s Attempts At Friendshlp. Nevertheless, to say, London “quicted down on tho Moroccan affair.” The slon had gone Berlin an understanding with Germany, and that mission failed. Tichnowsky fesses, ‘‘because we promise of neutrality' Britain in the event of 1ropean war, ‘“Instead of being satisfied with a treaty which secured us agaiast British support.”” He continues: ‘However, Sir Edward Grey had not given up the idea of coming to an un- derstanding with us,. and his first at- tempts in’ that direction were in con- nection with matters relating to trade and colonies. * ¥ *" After reaching a settlement with France and Ru on the old questions in dispute, the British statesman intended to come to similar agreements with us. What he aimed at was not to isolate us, but rather to have us, much as ble, take a share in the existing part- nerships. Having succeeded in bridg- ing over the differences which exist- ed botween England and France and between Fngland and Russia, he also wated to remove, as well as might be. the differences between England and | Germany, and to insure the peace of the world by means of a network of treaties which should ultimately also include a settlement of the miserahle naval question; whereas the quences of our own foreign policy to then had been the formation the entente partnership in which these nations pledged them- selves to render mutual support in case of war. As he himself expresced it, Grey's policy this: “Without infringing on the existing friendly lations with France and Russia which in themselves contained no aggressive elements and no binding obligations for England, to seek to achieve more friendly rapprochement with Germany and to bring the two groups nearer together'.” reader, Prince his American part the important nowsky's to most of 5 is not sion that as the policy Morocco Lichnow- sec- a Pos- as be- we and . but Ger- Lichnowsky goes on Haldane mis- to to come to con- demanded from a F a Great as possi- conse- W 1 was of British That pel Lichnow count ¢ the lishment, break (Germ clined Govern of on the other “From statesm land was th { volved wished mediate settle placed tente ( gotiatio G! I months, and not a W 1 concord taking the tho Vienna cluding lin the ition were or whilst toolk ti view o ways took no pret help th to leav would hand, had English ttitude prescribed On 1 Concess this wa not « wsky bt the Balkan pro Wa Albani that iy ) the ment of had proposal to part of the he say. beginn took the no intere ercfore un the an in a war ove simply as between th iTieulties nimself on 1 his allies) which virtue influen toward ne by iehty ittle and 4 position we in Albani Adriatic, f the Alban | the side of Sir T ard 1c French or ons in join disintercstedness an the ent © pr in negotintions and he unfortunate of in and Jowe ing stand st in illing e hon twe Thus he he nd sic du lasted his of ce h bri agreement similay varia eve of Engl etense P s Jong the Fr v declar impart [ C &3 Gt Lord the that Albania to be this question est brok 0 in ie of iring about goed e contrit nging Instea to th biy point har ry hian groups the Balkans. and's rince | out stab- out- we rench | ation iality 1 ritish Eng- and in He suted ahout d of t of assumed from in- bor: ari, and the defin- ian Aust Rus: On the contrar: o for King Scutart been pa ext at have war. W rt in It Nicholas was Othe ar ov order frontiers, a and hardly n poi he nearl to W rwise or with induced there | this mat- | , W Ttal cver nt of y al- give his ter, as we should never have dared to ask our allies to malke concessions. ‘Lord Grey tions and threate would of N mandec tact cond rith When hecor an ned to draft 1 cqual His confidence ucted circumspection, ever me the a Involved, appropriate for agreement which invariably aceptable to all personality amon the members of the conference of which eign to us bian an Aus was dri of the fresh conscio B Simil onies ir tector Africa, all she ing atti ment, succeed form w wishes up to t tude wa reached south; islands which therefore r sphere my Fre fruitiess Further ern pau “The our fest was als colonial lish ides st and open oc hegruds man Pansion inct to propose treaty en us a opportunity for economic However, tensibly suscept of the forts to by the the tre: referrec moters tal in by the ish ™ this wi prise cc those policy. ambitions, humiliation a numerous characte Russia every poir Al trian vassal ven from th conference e at fy usness. | more we issued succes tosts ristic had 1t to bania State e sea w or R 1y from of sire of our had to further was cr o and S neg calmness, question zotia- he ula. roved com- g all Once 1 one ength for- vield Ser- eated erbia The result therafor ussian ish Concessions in Africa. when in Africa, of Portugn assisted wished tnde. of Prince ed in giving hich and interest he twentieth arly, ions n the the 1s assigned the and of e Congo we San north Tho of neh interest collea counter more, t of we Rritish Grey will o iInterested expansion a rength away western En and Af Germany said a me Grenat rean e me. d to well right of declin we ont ibilitic * British respect onr fact that aty was i to seeking the terr new treaty s king in the th the remar ontemplated orie Gerr Port Bri Lichnowsky the A deg us, o resio received me fa e to and many uguese interes tish write new tres fully coincided with 1 ree of of so that n from the valt Ar ot lively th sought col- England, as the pro- in Germany in obtaining “Thanks to the oblig- Gove Lty our agola longi- we the 1able Principe, of the Equator ally belong to the French which and led ough representations. received Mozambique, the Likungo forming the houndary Government the greatest obligingness in Interests his zood wan toward furthering our in it hei fror rope Tica her mber Brits include the Cong This would hs pre-emption ed th rd righ Grey comnvleted ain investments and d mat s th belo our sphere of interest.” British Princ the san London negotiations 1+ Bagdad treaty. called purpose Asia M h Lichnowsl time T w o of inor this into tre Concessions in as ca 1 Tho Government wa spheres the n h beha to us, ted ng the m the N out ‘We colonial of tho vn origi ve penotr his offe for “inc in it s sk t w even or Tnglish of signed fesiring ter Te at the e nged t W Asia Mi ntinue rrving rding th * The to d of in on orth- owed If of nani- 1t he Fng- to divert the developing Ger- North into the do not ex- b- nally the an ation s of- hown efore igned, pro- capi- o us Brit- > did nter- ithin nor. At in real ivide o interest although this expression was careful- Iy avoid of the peatedl there ¢ Franc, partitio Afte ish rey Haklki connect were ance w Bank that Si personally the had the dad ha minal y tional the We rai be als tru rights i which of the treaty far interest croach the cas the Wi adjusted The most connection vig led out o Sultan. v declare xisted no Bdw ard Gre; however, agreements regard for the rights re- | o that with | and Russia for the purpose of ning Asia M v enlisting t »resentative, Pasha, all ed with Ge ith the wishe G the P up to d hitherto point of the 1 commission ation on had a sha ction at 1 the navi had hitherto firm of Ly the whole Bagra came in far upon prior B e of the irrigatic r Edward was Iroad to en giver ) a Tcox sra Alex constituted inor! e in t1 economic rman 1tially o5 of rey pre 5 u oad was the re in Basra, ion been nch ritish Tigris nav n p of a perso que; entery n ac the Deu a important conces made to slongatio or this in fav hdrelta. 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Ger- many's rise as a commercial power after the war of the seventies and in the following decades was certainly a menace to British industries and export a sort of monopoly creasing trade with inked as Bngland's b customer, made it desirable for England to re- main on good term with her best cus- tomer and friend, and grad- ually supplanted all other considera- The Briton is matter of fact conciles himself to facts and not tilt against windmills. Tt was precisely in commercial circles that T met with the most friendly re- ception and observed an effort to pro- economic interests common to countries * 1 became con- soon after my arrival (in Eng- that we did not in the to fear an Knglish attack or support of a foreign attack, ©ngland under all circum- would protect France » I never ceased to point out that as a commercial nation England would suffer enormously in any war between the great Iuropean powers and would therefore seek by every means to pre- vent it, but that in the interest of the Buropean balance of power and in to prevent a preponderance of German power she would not tol- erate the weakening or destruction of France. Lord Haldane had me this soon after my arrival. person in authority expressed self to the same effect.’ Fngland Friendly in July, 1914 commerce enjoved But the in- Germany, which houses tion he r does mote both vinced land) have English but that stances arder Every him- When the assassination of the Aus- wrehduke occurred “‘the English at first triendly Prince Lichnow: ultimatum trian press was quiet and ky savs. to Austria But when the Austrian to Serbia was known press con- it. Berlin T have not world, out- realized war, and a world war, hap- glish flec which 1 holding a naval demobilizec The nt labored to make conciliatory, and in keeping efforts.”” Sir Bd- ward then proposed his plan of mediation upon the two points which erbi had not wholly cong.lad. demned and Vi side na, that it The roview, was o British Govern rbian ¥ Grey the S answer was with whose | least | told | 240 MAIN STREET. Prince Lichnowsky writes: “Mr. Cam- | bon (for France), Marquis Imperiali (for Ttaly), and I were to meet, with Sir Bdward In the chair, and it wonld have been easy to work out a formula for the debated points, which had to do with the co-operation of imperial and royal officials in the inquiries to { be conducted at Belgrade By the ex- ercise of good will everything cov have been settled in one or two sit- tings, and the mere acceptance of the Britith proposal would have relieved the strain and further improved our relations with England. I seconded this plan with all my eners In vain. 1 was told (by Berlin) that it would be against the dignity of Aus- tria. Of course, all that was needed was one hint from Berlin to Count Berchtold (the Austrian Foreign Min- ister): he would have satisfied him- self with a diplomatic triumph and | rested on the Serbian ver. That hint was mever given. On the con- pressure was brought in favor Edward our No Ber- con- “After our refusal Sir ug to come forward We insisted other answer could I lin) than that it was descension on the part of Austria not to contemplate any acquisition of ter- ritory. Sir Edward justly pointed out asked with on war. (from colossal proposal. get | that one could reduce a country to alage without acquiring territory; Russia would this, and re- gard it as a humiliation not to be put up with. The impression grew strong- or and stronger that we were hent on war. Otherwise our attitude toward A question in which we were not di- rectly concerned was incomprehensi- ble. The insistent requests and well- defined declarations of M. Sazanof, the Czar's positively humble telegrams Jater on, Sir Edward's repeated pro- posals, the warnings of Marquis San Giuliano and of Rollati, my own press- ing admonitions were all of no avail. Berlin rematned _inflexible—Serbia must be slaughtered.’ War was declared. “Thus ended { my mission to London,” Prince Lich- nowsky says. “It had suffered ship- wreclk, not on the wiles of the Briton | put on the wiles of our own policy."” | And of the German traditions that made this policy possible, he con-! cludes: ‘“‘Were not those right who | saw that the German people was per vaded with the spirit of Treitscke and Bernardl, which glorifies war as end instead of holding it in abhorrence as an evil thing? 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