Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 246, 16 October 1922 — Page 9

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Ex-Emperor Falsely Accuses

Allied Statesmen, of Trying to Provoke World War in 1914

BY WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN Innumerable are the pieces of evi dence that as early as the Spring and bummer or 1314, when nobody in Ger many believed as yet in the Entente's attack, war had been prepared in Rus- , sia, ranee, Belgium and England. I included the most important proofs of this, in bo far as they are known to me, in the "Comparative Historical Tables compiled by me. On account of their great number, I shall cite only a few here. If in so doing I do not mention all names, this is done for reasons easily understood. Let me remark furthermore that this whole mass of material became known to me only little by little, partly during the war, mostly after the war. (1) As far back as April, 1JJ14, the accumulation of gold reserves in the English banks began. On the other hand, Germany, as late as July, was still exporting gold and grain; to be Entente countries, among others. (2) In April, 1914, the German JVaval Attache in Tokio, Captain von Knorr, reported that he was greatly struck by the certainty with which every one there foresaw a war of the .Triple Alliance against Germany in .the near future that there was a 'something in the air as if, so to speak, people were expressing their condolences over a death sentence not yet pronounced. (3) At the end of March, 1914, General Sherbatsheff, director of the St. iPetersburg War Academy, made an (address to his officers, wherin, lamong other things, he Bald: "That war with the powers forming the Triple Alliance had become unavoidable on account of Austria's antiRussian Balkan policy; that there ex- ! isted the strongest sort of probability that it would break out as early as same Summer; that, for Russia, it was a point of honor to assume the offensive immediately." (4) In the reDort of the Releian Am. jbaseador at Berlin regarding a Japa nese military mission which had ar rived from St Petersburg in April, 1314, u was slated, among other things: At the regimental messes the Japanese officers had heard quite open talk of an imminent war against Austria-Hungary and Germany: it was istated, however, that the army was ready to take the field and that the moment was as auspicious for the Russians as for their allies, 'the trench. (5) According to the memoirs of the then French Ambassador at St Peters burg. M. Paleologue, published in 1921, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, the orand Duchesses Anastasia and Mil itza told him on July 22, 1914, at Tsarskoe Selo, that their father, the King of Montenegro, had Informed them, in a cipher telegram, that "we shall have war before the end of the month (that is before the 13th of Aug ust, Russian style) : nothing will be left of Austria. You will take back Alsace-Lorraine Our armies will meet in Berlin. Germany

I win be annihilated."

(6) The former Serbian Charge d Affaires at Berlin, Bogitshevich, tells in his book, "Causes of the War", pub-

; lished in 1919, of the following state- ; ment which Cambon, the then French

Ambassador at Berlin, made to him on the 26th or 27th of July, 1914: "If Germany wishes matters to come to a war, she will have England also

v agianst her. The English fleet will lO take Hamburg. We shall thoroughly A beat the Germans." Bogitshevich : states that this talk made, him sure ;that the war had been decided upon

,at me time of the meeting of Poinicare with the Russian Czar at St. ' ! Petersburg, it not sooner. Russian Crown Council i (7) Another Russian of high rank, : a member of the Duma and a good 'friend of Sazonoff, told me later about the secret Crown Council held, with the Czar presiding, in February, 1914; moreover, I obtained corroboration from other Russian sources mentioned in my "Historical Tables" of the following: At thi3 Crown Council Sazonoff made an address wherein he suggested to the Czar to seize Constantinople, which, since the Triple Alliance would not acquiesce in it, would cause a war against Germany and Austria. He added that Italy would break away from these two, in the natural course of events; that I France was to be trusted absolutely land England probably. I The Czar had agreed, it was eald, jand given orders to take the necessary preliminary steps. The Russian Finance Minister, Count Kokovzeff. wrote to the Czar advising against this course I was informed of this by Count Mirbach after the peace of Brest-Litovsk recommending a firm union with Germany, and warning against war, which, he said, would be unfavorable to Russia and lead to revolution and the fall of the dynasty. The Czar did not follow this advice, but pushed on toward war. The same gentleman told me this: Two days after the outbreak of war he had to be invited by Sazonoff to

oreakiasi. me latter came up to him beaming with joy. and, rubbing his hands together, asked: "Come now i i my dear Baron, you must admit that I have chosen the moment for war , excellently, haven't I?" When the . Baron, rather worried, asked him i what stand England would take, the i Minister smote his pocket, and, with a sly wink, whispered: "I have something in my pocket which, within the next few weeks, will bring joy to all i Russia and astound the entire worldI have received the English promise

mat tngiana win go with Russia

against uermany. (9) Russian prisoners belonging to , the Siberian Corps, who were taken in East Prussia, said that they had been transported by rail in the Sum

mer or 113. to the vicinity of Moscow, since manoeuvres were to be held there by the Czar. The manoeuvres did not take place, but the troops , were not taken back. They were stationed for the Winter in the vicinity of Moscow. In the Summer of

iy were orougnt forward to

ine vicinity or ilna. since big manoeuvres were to be held there by the Czar; at and near Vilna they were deployed and then, suddenly, the sharp cartridges (war ammunition) were distributed and they were informed that there was a war against Germany; they were unable to say why and wherefore. 0(10) In a report made public in the press, during the Winter of 1914-1915, by an American, concerning his trip through the Caucasus in the Spring of 1914, the following was statedWhen he arrived in the Causcasus, at

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the beginning of May, 1914, he met wmie on his way to Tiflis, long col umns oi troops of all arms, in war equipment He had feared that a revolt had broken out In the naucasiw When he. made inquiries of the auth orities at Tiflis, while having his passport inspected, he received the quieting news that the Caucasus was quite peaceful, that he might travel wheresoever he wished, that what he had seen had only to do with practice marching and manoeuvres. At the close of his trip at the end of May, 1914, he wished to embark at a Caucasian port, but all the vessels there were bo filled with troops that only after much trouble could he manage to get a cabin for himself and his wife. The Russian officers told him that they were to land at Odessa and march from there to take part in some great manoeuvres. A Cossack' Testimony (11) Prince Tundutoff, Hetman of the Calmuck Cossacks livine hotwppn Tsaritsin and Astrakhan, who was, before and during the war, personal aid of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, came to general headquarters at Bosmont in1918 see.kinBto establish conner.tinn -mifh nc. many, since the Cossacks were not Slavs at all and thoroughly hosttile to the Bolsheviki. He stated that he had been sent by Nicholas Nicholaievitch. before the outbreak of the war, to the General Staff, in order to keeD th Duke posted on happenings there and mat ne maa neen a witness of the notorious telephone talks hotwAPn the Czar and the chief of the General atari, oeneral Januskevitch; that the uzar, aeepiy impressed bv tho pam. est telegram of the German Emperor, naa resolved to forbid mobilization and had ordered Januskevitch by telephone not to carry out mobilization, I. e., to break it off: that tha latter had not obeyed the unmistakable order, but had inquired by teleyuune oi toazonorr. Minister of Foreign Affairs witth whom for weeks, he had kept la touch, intrigued and incited to war what he was to do now; that Sazonoff had answered that the Czar's order was nonsense, that ail the Gen eral need to do was to carry out mob ilization, mat he (Sazonoff) would bring the Czar around the next day and talk him out of heeding the stupid telegram from the German Emperor; that, thereupon, Januskevitch hau informed the Czar that mobilization was under way and could not be broken off. Prince Tunduttoff added: "This was a lie, for I- myself saw the mobilization order lying beside Januskevitch on his writing table, which shows that ,,,, Dot as yet been Siven out at SHI. The psychologically interes ti n g point about the above is that Czar Nicholas, who -helped prepare the World War and had already ordered mobilization, wished to recede at the last moment My earnest wn mi notelegram, it seems, made h clearly for the first time the colossal responsiDiuty wnich he was bringing upon himself by his warlike preparations. Therefore, he wished tn ctnn the war machine, the murderer of entire peoples, which he had just set in motion. This would have been possible and peace might have been

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preserved if Sazonoff had not frustrated his wish. When I asked whether the Grand Duke, who was known as a Germanhater, had Incited much to war, the Cossack chief replied that the Grand Duke had certainly worked zealously for war, but that incitement on his part would have been superfluous, since there was already a strong sentiment against Germany all through the Russian officer corps; that this, from the French Army to the Russian officers; that there had been a desire, in fact to go to war in 19081909 (Bosian Question), but France was not then ready; that in 1914, Russia, likwise, was not quite ready; that Januskevitch and Sukhomlinoff had really planned the war for lfc.7, but Sazonoff and Isvolsky, as well as the French, could not be restrained any longer: that the formef two were afraid of revolution in Russia and of the influence of the German Emperor on the Czar, which might dissuade the Czar from the Idea of waging war; and that the French, who were sure, for the time being of England's help, wer afraid that England might come to an understanding later on witli Germany at the expense of France. When I asked whether the Czar had been aware of the warlike spirit iu iiussia ana naa tolerated it the Cossack Prince answered that it was worthy of note - that the Czar had forbidden once for all, as a matter of precaution, the inviting of German diplomats , or military attaches to luncheons or evening meals eriven bv Russian officers at which he himself was to be present Stores of Enqllsh Coats (12) When our trooDs advanced In 1914 they found, in Northern France and along the Belgian frontier, great stores of English soldiers' greatcoats. According to statementts bv tne inhabitants, these were placed there during the last years of peace. Most of the English infantrymen who were made prisoner by us in the summer or 1914 had no erenimatBwhen asked why they answered quite naively: "We are to find our greatcoats in the stores at Maubeuge, Le yuesnoy, etc., m the north of France ana m ueigium. It was" the same rprariHn mans In Maubeuge great quantities of Engiiou miiuary maps of Northern ci nice ana Belgium were found by UU1 copies or tnese have been shown to me. The names of places were printed m French and English auu ui sorts or words were transli f nl : it.. - "" 1,1 i"e margin tor tne convenience of soldiers, for instance: mounn (mni) pont (bridge) .maison (house) ville (town) bois (wood) etc. These maps date from 1911 and were engraved at Southampton. The stores were established by England, with the permission of the French and Belgian Governments, before the war. in the midst of peace. v hat a tempest of horror would have broken out in Belgium, the "neutral country," and what a rumpus England and France would have kicked up, if we had wished to establish stores of German soldiers' greatcoats and maps in Spa, Liege and Namur. Amnn? tho etatocm . ,j .vomcu iiu, Mara Poincare, particularly helped unleash me worm war, the Sazonoff-Isvolsky group probably should tak fi rsr ronV Isvolsky, it is said, when at Pairs' proudly placed his hand upon his breast and declared: "I war. Je suis le pere de cette guerre." mn tne iatner or this war. ) Delcasse, also. hasa lare-n nhara in the guilt for the World War, and Grey an even larger share, since he was the spiritual leader of the "encirclement" policy, which he faithfully push-

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Reply to the Kaiser s Memoirs The Palladium has secured, in co-operation with other newspapers, Rene Viviani's reply to the Kaiser's Memoirs. The reply will be published in The Palladium in a series of . daily installments starting about the middle of November, the series containingVabout 70,000 words under the general title THE MISTAKES OF THE KAISER the first written statement from an authentic official source of the French side of the world's most tragic story. The subject matter of the Viviani series : THE MAN BEFORE THE DRAMA Tbe Hohenzollern family. How they conquered their throne. The break-up of Germany would have saved the world, but iJermanv wanted to dominate the world. The education of Wilhelm. llie tragic death of his father. His accession to the crown. Dismissal of Bismarck. An autocrat without authority. THE SCENE OF THE DRAMA Germany through the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The philosophical formation of the German people helped to their militaristic formation. The German rules of war. After the victory of 1871. Militarism co-operating with capitalism. THE ONLOOKERS Europe at the beginning of the century. The truth about the socalled "policy of encirclement" How. four times, in 1905, 1907, 1911. and 1913, Europe was on the verge of war, owing to Germany. BEFORE THE RAISING OF THE CURTAIN What happened at the beginning of 1914. The dumping mining Germany. Militarism overflowing. The impressions of the King of the Belgians when he saw the Kaiser. The famous Cambon dispatch. My accession to the Premiership in France. What situation I found when I took the government. LEAVING FOR RUSSIA My trip to Russia with Poincare. What we did and said in Petersburg. The first news from Austria. The ultimatum to Serbia: how it was prepared, sent and concealed. Our broken journey and our hasty return to France. OUR SUPREME EFFORT BEFORE THE THUNDERBOLT The true story of the negotiations. How France, Russia and England left no stone uncovered in order to preserve peace. France accepted every proposition, Germany rejected every suggestion. THE THUNDERBOLT I give orders to withdraw all the French troops 12 miles beyond our border. The tragic day (August 3rd). Baron Von Schoen calls at the French Foreign Office and hands me over the official declaration of war from Germany. PROOFS OF THE KAISER The twelve proofs given by the Kaiser that the allies wanted and prepared for war. A childish argument. Not a single fact Has the Kaiser never heard of Kautsky? What we find in Kautsky's revelations. r THE WAGING OF THE WAR Never was there a more cruel war. How it was waged. The bloodshed and the ruins. The alliance with Bolshevism which ruins the world. The cowardice of the Kaiser. His adbication and his flight His abuses towards his fellow-worker. THE WORLD AFTER THE DRAMA Only death, disaster and ruins. The general profits and losses. THE PERSONAGE AFTER THE DRAMA The wealthy situation of the Kaiser. Napoleon after Waterloo and Wilhelm after his defeat. Can we live without justice and morality' The actual state of Germany. The only hope of her salvation is in Democracy.

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