Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1918 — Page 8

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,«o «o. he appointed the people's Idol an rommandev-in chief in Falkenha n'a I lace, Jealous BJ% he waa of that gentBral's popularity, he was alive to hie fcnilitarv genius and proud of his sucless, and now tlwat he wa.i at the head of the army, the kaiser's spirits c#l're iably" revived.

That the kaieet't Jealousy was founded on BUtflcient reason, I ted convincing evidence shortly before 1 left Berlin. 1 saw the kaiser driving up Unter der Linden on his way to the pelace. He was grouted by respectful salutes from the people he passed but there was nothing in the way of demonstration. A few moments later General von Hindcnburg came along. He was evidently on his "ray to a conference with the kaiser. As he passed, he was mot with Jubilant cheers and people threw their hats in the air to show their admiration for the hero who had done so mucn to vindicate Germany's boasted military superiority.

I have referred In a previous chapter to the kaiser'a unbounded confidence after Hie Italian collapse in 1917. "Now, we've got the allies!" he exclaimed, with an air of conclusiveness which emphasized the optimism he displayed.

After tiie capture of Rumania, he exhibited a similar degree of exultation. He believed that in that achievement he had successfully solved the food problem—the one cloud which •constantly darkened the kaiser's IuhUOB.

Starve Out America.

"Now the allies will never succeed Tn starving us," he said to me, in my office, shortly after the Rumanian drive. "With Rumania in our pockets and Sflrhia a'ready our:-, their wonder ful agricultural possibilities will supply our food needs and foil our enemies' efforts to starve us. Indeed, they

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better look out for themselves. Don't forget we have a monopoly on on the potash .mines of the world. "Without proper fertilization, American crops will go on decreasing and decreasing and tfcey won't get any potash until we get ready to let them have it!"*

The failure of the Zeppelins fmm a military standpoint was undoubtedly a great disappointmert to the German

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people at large, who had counted so much upon them to bring disaster to England, but It cannot bo said that the kaiser shared their chagrin. On the contrary, I have reason to believe that he never expected very much from that arm of his military force except as it might be useful to terrorize the civil population.

A day or two after Zeppelin's death, in 1917, a patient of mine, a lady, happened to remark that it was too bad that the count had not lived to see tho triumph of his invention, and when I saw the kaiser shortly afterwards I repeated her remark to see what he would say. '1 am convinced that the count lived long enough to see all that the Zeppelins were capable of accomplishing," was his only comment". It recalled the answer he had given me some years before, when both Zeppelins and aero-

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planes were in their Infancy, and I had asked him which held their greater promise. "We do not know. Time alone will tell," was his reply.

The last time I conversed with the kaiser was on November 26, 1917. Up to that time we had sent over 169,000 troops according to the figures which have since been revealed by Secretary Baker. According to the k^ser's information, however, we had only 30,000 men in France at that time and Jie was of the opinion that we would never have many more.

Our Army Mutinies.

"America is having a fine time tryngi to raise an army," he declared, satiracally. "I hear that 1,600 mutinied the other day in New York and refused to get on a transport, and a town in the northwest composed principally of citiens of Swedish blood refused to register at all! We are getting excellent information about all conditions in America."

Shortly before this had come the revelations from Washington of the intrigue of Count von Luxburg, the German minister to Argentina, and I knew where the kaiser was getting the information he referred to. In nearly every case, it appeared, the kaiser's informants were misleading him.

Both before and after we entered the war, the kaiser was thoroughly convinced that we could play only a nominal part in it so far as man power was concerned and his assurance on that point undoubtedly accounted for his decision to carry it through resulted in bringing us into the war. "Do you realize how many tons of shipping it takes to ship a single soldier?" he asked me on one occasion.

I confessed my ignorance on that point. "Well, It takes six tons to the man! To send over an army of 500,000 men, therefore, your country would require 3,000,000 tons of shipping in addition to the tonnage required for regular traffic. Where is it coming from, with my submarines sinking the allied vessels faster than they can ever be replaced? My U-boats are doing wonderful work and we are prepared to take care of all the troops America may try to land in France." "How foolish for America to have come into the war," he went on. "If she could succeed in landing a real army in France, what gooa would it do? America can see now how easy it was for me to break through and to capture 300,000 of the Italians, and they must realize that I can break through on the western front at»a do the same thing: there. If America had kept out of the war she would have gone on making untold profits and when peace was flnaity declared she would have been in a most enviable position among the nations of the world. As it is, Wilson will nev»r have to pay all the costs of the war!" Evidently he imagined that his triumph would he so complete that there would be no peace table but that the warring nations would be compelled to accept the terms he offered them, in which event, knowing the magnanimity of the Oorman make-up, I should say the world at large would have to be content with very little.

JIow the kaiser feels now that the failure of the U-boats to intercept American troop-ships must be painfully apparent to him and America has so overwhelmingly overcome the shortage of shipping, I don't know, but it is more than probable that for some time to come the real situation will, at any rate, be successfully concealed from the German people. I know that the failure of the U-boat campaign was unknown to Germans up to the time I left Berlin—in January, 1918.

Losses of U-boats were never accurately announced, while the destruction of allied vessels was always reported in terms of carrying capacity, rather than in the displacement of the vessels. which was: one of the factors accounting for the discrepancy between the German estimates of our shipping losses and our own figures and which disposes of the charge that the allied naval authorities concealed the true extent of our punishment at the bands of the U-boats.

Salt Water Talk.

The fact that the Germane magnified their U-boat activity was brought out by socialist members of the reichstag. They declared that U-boat commanders returning from their trips invariably gave false reports to maJke themselves heroes. They declared that these commanders were like the imaginative lishermen who no matter what poor luck they might encounter were apt to come back with exaggerated stories of huge catches.

In this cohnection, I may mention that an Englishman who had been interned at Ruhlebe camp told me that an English sailor there had kept an I accurate list from day to day of all the

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boats sunk as published in the German papers. An analysis revealed that one ship had been sunk no less than five times: He had been skipper on another boat reported sunk. According to the German papers it was a 500 ton vessel. In point of fact, he declared it was only 90 tons. 'How many submarines do you think we have really lost to date?" I was asked, around Christmas, 1917, by a German who was a personal friend of Maximilian Harden.

I replied that I had heard that many months ago England had celebrated the sinking of the 100th U-boat. "That's ridiculous!" he ejaculated. "I have inside information Which is not publicly known: we have lost exactly six."

While the kaiser and the Germans generally felt confident that we would never be able to send many men across, they professed to feel litUe concern even if we did.

According to some of the German officers with whom I spoke, even if we landed 2,000.000 men in France, it would not be enough to break the deadlock, as the Germans were taking a similar number of trained troops from the Russian front. The only menace of American participation in the war lay in the possibility that we might add considerably to the allied air strength. Man-power alone, they contended, would never be sufficient to help the allies much, hut overwhelming superiority in the air might occasion the Germans some annoyance,

Pooh! Says Kaiser.

The kaiser himself had but a poor opinion of the fighting qualities of tho American soldier so far as modern war requirements are concerned. "The American soldier would possibly give a good account of himself in open fighting," he declared, "but he is not built for the kind of warfare he will encounter in France. He lacks the stolidity to endure life in the trenches.

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He is too high-strung and couldn't stand the inactive life which is such an important part of modern warfare. Besides he lacks discipline and trained officers."

The kaiSer's views on these points serve to explain the confidence Ik* fe'.t and displayed right up to the time 1 saw him last, but so much has happened within the few months that have since elapsed that I cannot believe he feels the same way today. He must realize now that he was wron when he said we wouldn't be able to get enough ships to ferry them across, he was wrong when he said his U-boats would prevent their landing in France, and he was wrong when he said our men would not be able to adapt themselves to modern warfare! With a million men on the firing line today and enough ships built or build ing to carry across within the year another million and a half now under arms, the power of America must present to the kaiser a very different aspect than It ever bore before, and his arrogant spirit must be wavering now that he realizes what a vast mistake h* made when he forced the United States to take up, arms against him.

To be Continued Tomorrow.

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