Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — GERMAN ENVOY SAYS GERMANY HAS WON WAR [ARTICLE]

GERMAN ENVOY SAYS GERMANY HAS WON WAR

Von Bernstorff Admits Withdrawal of Troops From Belgium. KAISER READY FOR PEACE Defeat on the Seas Is Acknowledged—• Saya Nation Will Stand for Moat Effective Use of Bombs Dropping From Air on Towns. New. lork, Sept. I,— Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, after surveying the European situation as revealed in the day’s news and in dispatches from Berlin by way of Sayville, L. 1., today, gave an Interview which shows that he believes the crisis for Germany is past. The alms of the general staff are attained. France is defeated and the battle ground in western Europe is in such a condition that Germany can now recall great numbers of troops to meet the Russian invasion, according to Count von Bernstorff’s belief. A resume of the ambassador’s views follow ; ■ The war is won. The coalition has been defeated in western Europe. German defeat on land is now out of the question. The alms of the German general staff have been attained. The allies have been so badly and so suddenly worsted that Germany is free to withdraw, as she has begun to do, great numbers of men to ward off the Russian invasion. The defeat on the seas is acknowledged with the proviso that the defeat was to be expected, since the German navy has always been meant simply to defend the coast line, and that if the English assumed the growing German navy was meant for any other purpose they labored under a sadly mythical conception. Germany did not begin the war. She did not want the war. She is ready for peace at any moment. Germany's victory means a great advance of democracy in the empire. The nation can never forget how the whole people rose as one man an unjust attack, nor how the leader of the Socialists made a speech amid the wild cheers of the Conservative party, which stood up to a man. waving their handkerchiefs at him. In the matter of the policy of German warfare the ambassador made it clear that Germany will stand for the most effective use of bombs dropping from midair and the use of her most modern appliances, London being as much subject to attack by Zeppelins as Paris and Antwerp. No further notification to bombard from midair is necessary, the ambassador holds, than the declaration of war. Non-belligerents, he says, should get out of danger by removing themselves from threatened cities or take the consequences.