The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1919, Page 13

i PLANNED INCENDIARY BOMBS ON PARIS ALSO: FEAR OF SURE DEFEAT PREVENTED OUTRAGE other German military chiefs As regards his own efforts, von) throne.) Tate in the summer of 1918. They Hintze said that he confidently) wanTED TO had an idea that this atrocity hoped for mediation through the CRUSH RUMANIA Queen of Holland, I could not as certain from his statements on what ground he based his hope. ‘would incline the minds of the allies to peace. Conditions in Rumania were also discussed with Secretary von Hintze The obvious military superiority of | ¥ He had no expectation that the o, entente had strongly affected BRICH VON LUDENDORFF | vague move to be taken by Count! 1.4 government in Jassy, which wan EDGE position was now s0 serious | Burian would lead to any resutt,and| tN) unter the influence of the ly im September, 1918) that that they would make the) wntente ambasnador, Their attitude H. Q. could not hope that a Miiation of the Queen of Holland) 1. us necame cooler and cooler; the é on London and Paris wou lifficult; he considered @ defin-| weaxneas of the Bucharest peace orcs the enemy to make peace. Per. | te step, such as he Intended to take) age jself felt now i was therefore refused for |%t The Hague, to be better In agreement with Secretary von agreed with On that point I quite Use of a particularly effective Hintze, G. H. Q. seriously considered him; Count Burian's proposals, of | bomb, expressly design- the inauguration of a new campaign for attacks on the two capitals, baboon ee haynes A eee ntly heard. wecainst Rumania with the troope | of which cient supplies were | W*re Much too shapele hat had been released from the FE: " — si } It was probably on the count's ad. | {hat en released from the East in August. large amount of damage that Were expected to cause would longer have affected the course | fou he Wea! vice that the Emperor Charles had | *°r, i recently had certain questions put to| the field marshal thru General von) General von Art promised his sup- port, provided the Emperor Charles | would agree, but, in spite of the mill ‘the war, and sheer destructiveness © nap , besa ner oe pepe | tary necessity for this step, the latter mever been permitted. Count bare ee eras tot ae to che mae n refused to sanction any special pres too, had requested G, H. Q % use these new incendiary ure on Rumank We therefore renounced the idea of ked me on the te him ara Cramon to answer ephone | ty asl " @n Account of the reprisals | 1 Ait th Emp for Charles wt | @king military measur and the Our own towns that would fol) ne, as the Empere aowee ¢ troops w urde to their original My views of the general mili-| “ched great importance to It destination in the West. In the end ry situation, however, were the CAUTIOUS WITH j however, they had to be sent to! ground for the decision. EMPEROR Serbia, Later on, Austria Hungary itwelf surge {in Rumania ed armed intervention be | but by that time It was Of course my cautiously worded, because there was replies had to - I retained the policy of ordinary 4 ‘on London and Paris, in order | Smamobilize enemy anti-aircraft), jeakage from Vienna to France, | t0o late and to prevent the troop) as proved by the Kimperor Charles’ | | Meanwhile Admiral von Holtzen the reduction in OUr/ Parma letters. (He refers to Em.|orff, who had developed severe h, but I no longer pressed) prow Zita and her family, She had | Peart dinease, had resigned, and Ad- Only one or two more) 4 brother in the Belgian army.) jmiral Scheer became chief of the raids were made on Paris, | rm }maval staff. He was an unusually We replied that the G army London could not at this time) would hold its present line in the | Clearthinking man, capable of swift Owing to adverse weather | West in particular the Siegfried line, | ‘cisions. 1 got in touch with him but that we were in favor of im.|# 800n as possible in Spa and mediate peace proposals; we did,| talked over with him the situation however, advise against those of in the West and the submarine cam-/| Count Burian. 1 drafted this reply, | tien | ‘On the visit of the minister) ang it was discussed at our conver| The evacuation of our submarine War to Avesnes in August. I had) sation with Secretary von Hintze be-| hase at Bruges might soon become from the front introduced to/ fore being dispatched. necessary. Admiral Scheer did not with a view to convincing him) Secretary yon Hintze was inform. | think that this would have a decisive f the bad influence exercised bY | oq in detail of the military situation. | influence on the submarine campaign ® home population on discipline. | jy a result of the discussions of | as the vessels already had to trave! and other leading men im the) sontember 9 he wired from Spa to/from Flanders round the north of ‘Ministry had always refused (0/16 ministry of foreign affairs, stat | Scotland, being no longer able to en © was constantly highly exercised iF mind with regard to the of the army and the people at this, or, at least, its fall ing that his majesty and G. H. Q.| ter the channel. Of course he did ce. The visit bore ho frult,| agreed to an immediate appeal to | not welcome the necessity for mass. my the Queen of The Netherlands, and|ing submarines on our German requesting that our allies should be | coasts, | invited to approve this step and to| oorpp Nor 1 pie, eM SPARE MEN j Austria-Hungary did not abandon | 5 He thought, too, that submarine Count Burian’s plan in faver of ours, building could be speeded up and and: bie note ‘wae: publiehed.on WAP | | ‘better reoult obtained. He asked tember 14. I don't know whether! our Proposal appeared to them, too distant, or what other reasons guid. @a the dual monarchy I do not) know. perial Emperor Charles explained in Was attached to the foreign of-/ 4 etter to his majesty that the an unhappy appendage devoid | telegram he had received from G. H.| ‘Bathority. Q. had induced him to take early steps for peace. I remarked to Col Heye that it was perhaps as weil that Count Burian had taken the step he did, and it was thus with my | *xceedingly grave aspect verthe |approval that we did not assume an|!*s¥ I gave instructions for the re | attitude of opposition to it | lease of these men. This order also Te | I cannot agree with the diploma. | led to considerable public contro "| tists that Count Burian’s peace note | Y*r*y. The supreme command could rendered mediation by the Queen of |2°t sive in until the sword should | The Netherlands impossible. It made |D¢ Wrested from its hand. There it more difficult, but did not exclude | W4# No need to abandon any desir: | it by any means. Above all, I can-| ble political aims, or to forego any not understand why Dutch media-| Useful supplies of material, until ab tion was not sought before the publi- | *lutely compelled by neceasity. feation of Count Burian’s note, for In spite of afl the difficulties, of which there would have been time| which I was only too well aware, | enough was not the man to throw up the me to assist him in the matter, aay ing he needed more workmen to turn out more submarines. I explained that G. H. Q. was not in a position to eupply them and could only agree to release a certain number of specially trained engineers and skill ed hands, This only involved a few men. These discussions lasted Into Octo- | ber. The situation had assumed an content myself with | could get I don't believe that Secretary von } sponge prematurely, and I held | Hintze seriously discussed the matter | strongly to the opinion that the ‘when, where and by wifit de wien the Dutch ambassador in Ber-| stronger we were in the field, the hetter our position would be in any Peace negotiations, 1 had introduced a change on my staff; I found Col. Heye an older as. sistant, and placed him in control of | several departments that previously | had stood under my immediate super- | vision. Their reporta went to him, | but I reserved to myself decisions of | moment. What I had gone thru would leave ne man unmarked. lin | In those days I no longer con cerned myself to any extent with military-political questions. Secretary von Hintze discussed the Polish question with G. H. Q. on lines laid down by the chancellor. I replied, as my duty dictated, and gave him my views. In a communi- cation dated August 28, after con-| ferring with a Polish gentleman in | Berlin, the secretary of state placed ‘Colonel von Haeften, who occupied leading position in the newly creat- central bureau, took great pains ‘achieve something. Secretary of Solf did indeed make one ef- tl speech on his advice. hancellor’s speech on his birthday, ly in September, was very feeble. oe I had been ap | vice chancellor spoke, too, but| definite proposals before us as to A . . inted to G, H. Q., not words were not telling like those how Poland might best be consti eee but to win bad war, oe Clemenceau, when German troops| tuted and our relations with that " ¥ | thought of nothing else. Like Clem. j#tate might be governed. He par-|enceau and Lioyd George, I had ticularly wanted to give Vilna to| wanted to call up the entire nation Poland, as it would always constl | hut 1 was not, as has so often and so |tute a foreign element in any | falsely been stated, a dictator. | Lithuanian state; Poland must cer. | ‘ digg | Lloyd George and Clemencean had "i within 80 kilometers of Paris, Later, Colonel von Haeften's sug ‘gestions to the new chancellor, Prince, Max of Baden, did not re sult in any more propaganda work Being done, although it was par-| tainly undertake to fulfill certain con- | ] ticularly necessary in so serious a| ditions, particularly the military con fom ge pits ~ the pecnacnente which situation. vention, to our complete satisfaction » r countries, for they were |“their” parliaments. At the same time they stood at the heads of the entire administrative and executive governments; I, on the other hand, had no constitution! power directly |to influence the German govern in the | Ment in order to enforce my views 1. |a# to the steps necessary for the |conduct of the war, and I waa fre. quently confronted with the lack of understanding and energy of the de partments whose duty it was to take G. H. Q. replied on August 30, signifying their agreement with the secretary and calling attention to cer. tain points which had been raised in the previdis discussions of which he might be unaware. We laid stress, for example, interests of our economical and mil tary policy, on the necessity of a rail- tember 3 we answered to this effect | W4¥ alliance with Poland and of in-| an inquiry from the chancellor, string safe communication thru which was prompted by his repte-| pen tad pen geil inden atenh sentative at G. H. Q., Count Lim-| WANTED “ ; a da burg-Stirum, after he had been in| UP POLAND | _Weace not being obtainable, T had | striven to carry the war to the suc formed of our intention to withdraw I considered it essential, that | cessful issue which alone could . Tension was high on the Western It had increased since our that we would maintain our po-| tion; in Italy and Macedonia our| inks and rear were covered 4 There was, however, no longer any of a victorious issue. On Sep- too, to the Siegfried line. Count Limburg: | fuititiment of Poland's obligations us from the fate we now suffer. Stirum was invariably kept inform-) «hould be more closely secured in I duninae that th ed of all events. |some way, for I could not overcome | | nt inne ogy 4 vil hin sue. The inquiry rather surprised me,| my mistrust of that country. Vilna |Cessful Issue was impossible and I saw the approach of the disaster 13 the “s which it had been my life's work to fully | | because, ever since August chancellor must have been mequainted with the situation; the at planation was, however, that Count Limburg-Stirum knew nothing of the h of faith. It was Giscussion of August 13 and 14 the foreign office to G, H. Q. had no news from Secre-| take steps to avoid the disadvantages tary von Hintze; all they knew was! resulting therefrom that he was to go to Vienna at the) With regard to Lithuania, even beginning of September to confer after this serious mutilation, I was had formerly been Lithuanians by promised to the the chancellor. It | feared he a was to be | very natu | that they would ard the cession to |County Trims Down | High Salary Budget How to cut down expenses for the current year was being dis with Count Burian about peace. 1/ still of the same opinion and em |Cuswed by the appointive officials considered that a further discussion phasized the necessity of attaching the county commissioners Friday With bim and the chancellor was|i¢ as a self-governing state to Ger-|\"° CUN'Y comminioners Friday, urgently required. It would have.to many or Prussia thru personal union. be held in the first days of Septn | Torn from its context, this minute ber, immediately after our return to| was used in the reichstag to convict | a salary of more than $3,600 a year, they were told by the commission- Spa. Secretary of State von Hintze| me of muddled political thought, |°™ Some asked as high aw $6,000 arranged to attend as soon as he| ‘The story of rts origin ts simple,|,,stimates submitted by Dr. J. ould return from Vienna, but his| but it is not clear how it came to be| T4te Mason, superintendent of the ‘great age prohibited the chancellor's | purioined from the foreign office. |COUntY | mogeicnte cae theater attendance, Plans should be followed as long as | educec phoning Pag Br a ‘| recelving board and bed in addi- DISAGREES possible, provided bem crs ahh other tion to salary are not entitled to wire AUSTRIA directions does not result therefrom, | oe ne ey eee at aan one which there was ground to fear. in this case no In this instance the |*¢tting only @ salary, the commis- |sioners ruled, The discussion in Spa with Secre tary von Hintze was held on Septem-| policy of the foreign office was Hs 2 eee ber 8 or 9. He informed us that) sound, and my position quite cor- Count Burian intended to dispatch a} rect ‘The first riddle ever recorded was note to all the belligerents, inviting 2 From the same point of view we| propounded by Samson in the Book them to @ peace discussion; he added were at that time in favor of the for-+0f Judges, 14th chapter, 14th verse, THE SEATTLE STAR Burning of Paris and London | that, according to accounts received | mation of a Baltic state and the net: | with incendiary bombs dropped [in Vienna, the Austrotungarian|tiement of the question of the from airplanes was the final | army 1 only hold out until the! Finnish throne, according to Fin form of ruthlessness that was in | winter, The for peace there | land's desires. (The kaiser’s brother- the minds of Ladendorff and the | was growing more urgent. } in-law had been put on the Finnish FOUR CHANGES (DRIVE BEGINS [BROKER'S BODY INPACT FAIL) HERE MONDAY FOUND BURIED |Treaty Supporters Win First! Salvation Army Girls to Sell) Two Held in Los Angeles on Senate Skirmish Trench Doughnuts Murder Charge Firat | | WASHINGTON, * Oct. 8 Monday, with a smash, the Salva vet pon A SPOKANE, Oct The body of th uy wk gmt a y ye ce rig 0) ton Army drive to raise $250,000 in) we ay, MeNutt, realty 4 missing ante yesterday remulted in victory for supporters of the pact Seattle for home service will begin. | since July 23, was found yesterday Complete investigation by the | | government of Japanese aggres- sion in the Northwest is urged in the report made to the Amer- jean Legion, Eimer J, Noble Post No. 1, by the special committee appointed to study the Japanese Atter rejecting four of the series of} If you never ate a real trench|on his ranch near here. question, The report is signed Fall amendments, to eliminate Amer-| doughnut, such as hundreds of] MeNutt had been bound, gagwed, by Thomas N. Swale, formerly can represéntatives from various in the U. 8. Intelligence service, comminsions net up by the treaty, the | “OU*ands of American troops de-| murdered and buried. KE. 8. Gill, ©. Kt rename uaa Jsenate continued debating and | voured under fire in France and Mra, Fay McDonald Wilkinson and| Kimer KE. Heg |Paring to vote on the others, ‘The| Belgium, Monday will be your first | her sister, Marie Jewel MeDonald,| ‘rie report follows | first vote was 50 to 68, and the next) opportunity, “Doughnut girls” will are under arrest in Los Angeles,| “We, your committer appointed to bya pc ther detonted no far | DAY® ‘em on the streets, charged with the murder. | !nvestigate the Japanese question would have eliminated thin country| Half the city’s quota, $125,000, will] ‘Teq and Will McDonald, brothers | Ubmit the following report from the Belgian boundary commis: | be raised among Seattle's business |of the women, also are charged with “Apparent rapid ir in num sion, excluded the United States from |men by a “flying squadron.” rder, and are sought by Southern | P# of the Japanese psp arrangements regarding Luxemb: The remaining $126,008 will be de- | Gaitornia police Northwest, together with the un and American representation on the| rived by means of an “industrial Phe McDonalds are children of the} “Ua! manner tn wh they are Saar basin comminasdon. division” working in hotels, restau-| inte Judge Mel ald, of Whitman | ?UShing themselves int arious O€ By an unanimous agreen t the) rants, smaller business houses and | county jcupations, in some cases almost to neonate lumped 26 of the Fall amend-| among the public generally Robbery is believed to have been |‘2* exclusion of American citizens, ments d without a roll call re-| The Elks will have charge of the the motive for the murder. McNutt | “2% this in connection with the grow jected them. All of these amend-| drive, Canvasxsers, doughnut girlt/nad more than $1,000 on him when|'"* Public feeling and sentiment ments provide for elimination of the| and fourminute men are already | he dixappeared rainst Japanese on the part of the United States from various commis-|tined up ready for the signal “over = citizens of the Northwest, presents a sions, There are still several other| the top.” * very serious problem, In the opinion amendments to be voted on. The staff of the Elks’ division,| Gasoline Steamer of your committee there should be a with W. H. Klepper, chairman; A.| thoro and complete investigation |i: Meewen, city campaign manager:, fire; Workers Run French Deputies | | Chester Roberts, “flying squadron"| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.—(Unit Ratify Treaty eh an, and Nathan Eckstein, vice |6d Preas.)—Gangs of strikebreakers PARIS, Oct. 2-—dUnited Press) | Chairman of the “flying sq loading the steamer Northland fled ‘The French chamber of deputies #4 their plans practically complete | hurriedly yesterday when sh ught ratified the p ty with Ger. | Thursds r the beginning of the|fire. The boat was loaded with gaso many this afternoon by a vote of| “tive Monday line, ofl, chemicals and merchandine 372 to 52. Sixty of the members did | Firemen from the fireboat boarded | the vessel, and, taking great risk not vote, , ES “ES Hunter Arrested; | beat the flames away from the gaso- For heroiam in the Meure-Argonne | line tanks, bringing the fire quickly eftenaive, Clarence Gytert, of Tene | Had No License | unser contro! will receive the Distinguished Ser. | First charge of hunting without a The fire is said vice Cross shortly at the Seattle | license this season ha been filed | when a box of army recruiting station. Sybert’s| against #. Dahlquist by A. J.|ped in the hold. citation says, altho severely wound:| Beach, game warden. Beach rays| ‘The Northland was alongside the ed, he performed hin duties efficient: | Dahlquist had one “chink” pheasant! Albers warehouse, It is owned by when arrested. the Albers company. to have started emicals was drop: VACUUM CUP CASINGS — “TON TESTED” ‘TUBES |. 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ETS ASK U.S. PROBE OF JAPANESE ican Legion. For that reason, and also for the further reason that the American Legion should interest itnelf in all things making for good citizenship, and the best interests of |our country, your committee believes that the Elmer J. Noble post No, 1 should, in conjunction with the Bie ‘you are now suffering.” “This question | affects the member one which vitally hip of the Amer« tional committee and with the repe eventatives of the United States gove ernment, do everything in its power to go to the bottom of this matter snd see that proper remedial action in taken. In view of the fact that Elmer J. Noble post No. 1 is but® part of a larger body, your commit. tee does not think it would be wise for this post to affiliate itself offictal- ly with any other organization, and_ also your committee does not think that the financial situation of this post in sugh that it should do more than give its time and moral support in this movement, and should not be required to donate financtally as am organization. Respectfully submitted, “THOS. N. SWALE, Chairman “E. 8, GILL i. CROSSON -LMER E. HEGG. Says Meat Packers A * . in Big Combine WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—~Attore neral Palmer has written for ov, Stubbs, of Kansas, that the five big meat packers are in @ com bination to restrain trade, “which, i permitted to continue, will have such a hold upon beth production and @ige tribution as will bring to all the peo ple unfortunate and unneo losses similar to those from ey mer Go