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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1922
The Mistakes of the Kaiser By RENE VI VI ANI Premier of France When the' War Broke Out Copyright, 1922, by The McClure Newspapet Syndicate.
CLOUDS OF WAR THICKEN I M. Poincare and I left our country on the morning of July 1G, 1914. Rocked Ifthtly between the blue skies "and tie blue waters, in that isolation which, for a man In public office, is the reward of action, the president of the French republic and I sat chatting with each other. We were journeying, with heads held high and clean of heart, toward the strengthening of our alliance with Russia, toward the establishment of friendly relations with other lands, toward that fusion of general sympathies wherein the privileged friendship caused by the existence of an alliance does not preclude additional knitting together of thoughts and interests. Nor does that friendship destroy independence, since, otherwise, an alliance would degenerate into servitude. M. Poincare had informed me, in my capacity of responsible head of the government, of the speech which he was to make at the imperial banquet, fend I had asked to have the speech to be made by the czar commu
nicated to me, which request had been granted. These two speeches both paid honor, in strong and clear words, to
peace, .
What were we going to say to the
czar, to the Russian government? Of
course, we were going to talk about the state of Europe, about the interests of the alliance between our two countries. We also intended (nor did M. Poincare and I omit this) to ask for the establishment of more cordial relations between Russia and Sweden, the latter having complained about isolated acts by a Russian naval attache. Finally, we were going to give expression to English grievances with regard to the actions of certain Russian consuls. An alliance requires that a certain degree of consideration, compatible with its maintenance, be shown to ;other nations. i We talked of these subjects and of others also, outside the province of our duties, drawing often upon our professional and political memories for the material of our- friendly conversations. When we arrived in the roadstead of Cronstadt on Monday, July 20, at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, a murderous
heat was pouring from the heavens upon the gorgeous spectacle before us,
a. heat of such intensity that, far up there in the north of Europe, I almost
yearned to exchange it for the heat of
my beloved Africa. C?ar Nicholas, as
dapper as a cavalry officer, came forth to gTeet us, and we departed together
with his suite of dignitaries and min
isters. The touching modesty of the . czar, as excessive as his timidity, his
contempt for the magnificence of pal-
,-eces his liking for a quiet life, were
clearly shown by hi? attitude and his remarks, expressed in the purest
French. He upheld the alliance with
France because of political lion
esty, to be surer but also because of a
kind of religious mysticism, which
-caused him to look upon it as a legacy from his beloved father. Never was tie insensible to the influence of those
two considerations. This I was to irarn later, in 1916, at the general headquarters of his army, whei an imperial ?ign from him, for which I asked in the course of a mission on which I had been sent, sufficed for me to obtain
w hat France desired. Conversation With the Czar
What can I say of our conversations? The head of the French republic spoke
.alone for almost an hour with the czar.
is was proper. I, too, conversed with
.he czar; also, naturally, with the pre
mier, and, above all, with M. Sazonoff.
We were in agreement as other min
,!.cters had been before me, in 1912, and it all times, regarding the necessity
.'or maintaining the alliance in dignity
ind peace. Also as I have noted ibove we transmitted the grievances
)f England and Sweden. All the ar
rangements of difficulties requested by
is were granted.
- Shall I speak of the celebrations
reviews, parades, of the reception by
!ihe empress, so magnificent in her beauty, with her blue eyes as piercing
is a sapphire? How long ago It all is
The soil of Russia, a shroud that is al
vays frozen, hides the horrors of heca
tombs, to escape from which neither
rank, age1 nor sex availed. The em
leror William, in. August, 1914, called tor solidarity among the regicides! His
government defrayed the expenses of
Lenine's journey to Russia!
. And now we are drawing close to
the, drama. We shall set forth its plot and after it will be easy to untangle its threads. i
On July 23, 1914, we left the Russian shore and started for Sweden, as had been officially and publicly decided upon a Ion? time before. I wish
it clearly understood that the smallest details of the trip, even the dinners, and, above all, the date of departure, were known to all the European chancelleries. The press in every country was full of the matter. We left at about 10 o'clock in the evening. In the meantime, the murderers of right, who had kept silent until that moment, were stealing upon their first victim: the ultimatum to Serbia was handed to the Serbian government on July 23, the very day of etfr departure, by the Austrian minister at Belgrade, the worst "agent-provocateur" whom a government bent" on provocative measures ever had stationed in a foreign country under the lying disguise
of an official costume. I Allowitig for the necessary lapse of time, we calculated that the ultimatum, having, been delivered at Belgrade at 5 In the afternoon, had not become known in St. Petersburg until after our departure.
Von Jagow's Secret Syping Our journey had been spied upon by on Jagow. Let readers form their
own opinion as to the extent of this
pying! This minister of foreign af
fairs who (as will be Bhown in the
course of later chapters) had denied all knowledge of the ultimatum at the end of July, having learned that we, on
July 23, were delaying our departure
y two hours, telegraphed to Vienna
to the German ambassador for the purpose of acquainting him with this, and
with the request that he cause the ultimatum to be delivered two hours later.
This shows how everything had been
prearranged in such a day that the
blow should not fall until after we had
departed. It shows how an attempt was made to disconcert the entente in
the face of the cleverly united combl
nation of the central powers.
Anxiety Increases
Nevertheless, the attitude of the
Austrian ambassador to the court of
Russia, which, though certainly polite, was more than reserved, combined
with warning forebodings, led me, at about 1 o'clock in the morning of the
night between the 23d and 24th, to
telegraph to Paris, In accordance with
an agreement which I had made to that effect with M. Sazonoff. To obviate all danger, even remote, I informed the government of the French republic at
Pans that if Austria should make a
demand upon Serbia, M. Dumaine was
to be requested in advance to endeavor
to have it couched in a more accept
able form. On the next day, July 24.
while we were steaming toward Sweden, amid heavy weather and upon
a rough sea, some shreds of messages, badly joined together, were brought
to us by the invisible aerial waves
From that moment the shrill sound of
the wireless, piercing the harmony of our Bolitude, made known to us, bit by bit, in separate fragments, the ultimatum to Serbia, the terms in which it was couched, Its threats, the undeserved accusations which Austria, basing herself upon the official report of one of her agents, had brought against
Serbia.
I made an effort to reassume my
official duties and from far out on
the sea, in the solitude of my cabin,
I telegraphed to London (Yellow Book
No. 22), for the purpose of requesting
that joint action be taken for the
purpose of lengthening the altogether too short time allowance granted to
Serbia, councelling Serbia to show the greatest prudence, and seeking to. in
stitute an international investigation. On July 25, at 5 o'clock in the morning, we arrived at Stockholm, where M. Thiebault, our minister there, at last handed us the exact text of the ultimatum. And thus we received con
firmation of the severity of its conditions, more Insolent than all the rest,
constituting a veritable declaration of war in themselves, giving Serbia only forty-eight hours in which to reply, re
fusing her even the right to discuss
her decision, and robbing Europe of
the chance to give helpful advice.
Everything Jookea dark. Yet we
were compelled throughout the day to reciprocate the exquisite politeness of the king of Sweden, to look on at externals, without succeeding in freeing
ourselves from the Internal torture of
our thoughts. That evening at 7 our minister- at Christlania, pursuant to orders which I had given him over the telephone, informed me that the German emperor had left Bergen for an. unknown destination. The comedy was drawing to an end. The real drama was to be hurried onward by the return of that innocent and naive traveler. We left Stockholm at 11 o'clock that
night. Never did I see such a contrast between nature and the painful feelhad gathered over our heads all their ings of all those present. The heavens
splendors; the white wake of our majestic ship was bathed in light In our minds, however, the shadows were beginning to deepen. Only Meager News of Ultimatum We tried constantly to get news. A piercing whistling 60und would cut through the air! What did It bring? nothing but an unintelligible message on a sheet of paper! Another! only a sentence bearing no relation whatever to anything else! And all the time we were waiting to learn what the Serbian answer was. Convinced that counsels of moderation and prudence had been firiven bv France and
Russia, convinced of the sene of duty of the noble little Serbian nation, we felt sure in advance that its answer would be conciliatory and of a nature
making possible an honorable settle
ment.
The 26th and 27th were without
news. Each hour that Dassed. we felt-
undoubtedly marked some rrave event-
but we were unaware what it might be.
e could not know it. The German
government as was learned later from documents found at Metz had given orders to disturb wireless com
munications.
Here Is what was found in the files
of the German wireless station at Metz:
July 28th. 2 o'clock. "The oovernor
opders that French wireless communi
cations be disturbed in .such a way as
no io constitute a violation of peace."
luouv. Deneitilt Stoerumr franzoesis-
cnen funKenverkehrs in elner den
fTieaen nicht verletzenden Form.)
a o-ciock. "The communication en
gineer of the wireless orders that
French Russian wireless communica
tions be disturbed "
July 28. 4 O'clock. The Eiffel tnwor
nas unaerstood our intention of dis
turbing its communications and it is
evidently trying to deceive ns bv trans.
mimng with great energy to Dunkirk
news for the steamshiD "France.'
which does not answer. "In view of the
possible importance to Russia of the
contents of the dispatches, this trans
mission is also blocked (unterbun-
aenj."
And here is why we knew nothing
or wnat was going on.
Surrounded by the solitude of the
sea, far from all men, it is impossible
to Know wnat is going on in the world
Responsibility, no matter how crushing
u may De, is assumed proudly when
tne win to assume it is based on real
uy. out there on the sea. thouerh. we
had nothing on which to Bhape our ac
tions, how thought is strengthened
wnen it illuminates the inner world which man carries within himself! But
what agony one suffers, on the other hand, when one is confronted with the
necessity or acting upon the outer
world and is deprived of every means
or aomg so:
un tne morning of the 27th wo r.
ceived the following: "Satisfactory re
ply from Serbia: admirable in it
moderation." And yet, in spite of this, the Austrian minister had taken his departure from Belgrade two hours after he had received the reply. What did this meaH?
As we drew nearer to France, we
guessed the nature of the sombre imbroglio, which, engineered cleverlv
and violently, served as the framework for the situation. Germany, hailing joyfully the return of her emperor, refused to intercede with Austria, and, at the same time, arrogantly demanded
mat we seeic to influence Russia. She even offered to appear our friend in this task, acting conjointly with us, her purpose being to denounce Russia, with backing from us, as the guilty party. Refusal of further delay; no inter-
MISS BARBARA KERN, 100, DIES AT MILTON; TO BE BURIED SUNDAY
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Masonic Calendar
Monday, Jan. 1 Richmond Com-
mandery No.. 8, K. T. State conclave
and installation of officers-
Tuesday, Jan. 2 Richmond lodge
No. 196, F. and A. M. Stated meeting. Installation of officers.
Wednesday, Jan. 3 Webb lodge No.
24. F. and A. M. Called meeting.
Work in Entered Apprentice degree Thursday, Jan. 4 Wayne Council No. 10, R. and S. M. StateI assem bly; installation of officers.
Friday, Jan. 5 King Solomon's
chapter, No. 4. R. A. M. Called con
vocation. Work in the Most Excellent
Master degree -and Royal Arch de-
eree. at 7 o'clock.
Saturday, Jan. 6 Loyal chapter. No.
49 O. E. S. Stated meeting and in
stallation of officers.
By Associated Fres PARIS, Dec. 30. The Saint Lazare
prison for women, which is both fam-
. . . . .
ous and notorious in tne annais in French history, has been ordered
torn down by the municipality of
Paris. It was in this prison that during the general war, certain well-
known women spies in the pay oil
uermany were aeiainea, orien pre
vious to execution. Marra-Hara, the red dancer, spent he last lays in the building. i Before the war the grey walls of this old convent held in bondage such women a3 Madame Caillaux, who shot and killed M. Calmette, editor of .the Figaro; Jeanne Web'er, the strrtngler; Threse Humboldt, charged with one of the greatest swindles known to recent French history, and a long list of other women involved in the criminal annals of nineteenth century France. WTien the walls of this prison have been replaced by a smiling garden there will also have disappeared one o fthe most remarkable buildings
of France, from the point of view of I
historic association. J I n . . . i,iA Mn n lanAf finnan '
founuea in mu an . ve centuries later it was taken in charge by the monks of the order of Saint Victor, who abolished the leper house feature, and used the building as a monastary. During this period of the building's history the great military and literary figures of France
frequented the gardens. Then, for a brief 30 years. It was used as a political prison, and with the cominp of the French revolution,
in July. 1789. during the ramine, me
nlace was broken into by the
looted for food and set afire.
mob.
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MILTON, Ind., Dec. 30. Miss Bar
bara Kern, 100 years old, one of
Wayne county's oldest citizens, died
at her home here Friday, after having been in ill health for nearly a year.
Funeral services will be conducted
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church. She is survived
by several nieces and nephews. She
lived with Mrs. Fannie Engles.
"Aunt" Barbara Kern had been a resident of this community for 70 years, and until last March 18. when she suffered a stroke of paralysis, she had been able to get around and take an active part in community affairs. Since the stroke, however, she has been confined to a wheel chair. Retention of her hearing and eyesight
even at her advanced age, made it possible for Miss Kern to enjoy many of the pleasures of life. One of Miss Kern's most notable accomplishments w"as the establishment of an orphanage at Harrisburg. Pa., when she was more than . 70 years old. In spite, of her age. Miss Kern succeeded in securing the required number of signers, principally within the membership of her church of Brethren in Christ. Gives Over $3,000 She personally paid over the $3,000
necessary for the institution, which was thereupon equipped and maintained by the free will contributions and by the $1,500 allowed biennially from the treasury of Pennsylvania. Milton as well as Harrisburg holds
a splendid remembrance of her in the cemetery lot and memorial monument she donated for the Washington township service men of the Civil, Spanish and World wars. The monument was dedicated at the Memorial day services 'in 1920. The Kern family emigrated to Springville, Lancaster county, Pa,, from Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1817, but Aunt Barbara Kern was born in this country.
coincided with that toward Denmark,
consequently we had not lost a moment. Again I telegraphed (Yellow
Book, No. 76) to M. Bienvenu-Martin
who so ablyvacted in my place, giving
my approval of his firm and prudent conduct, and for the purpose of protecting him. On the morning of the 29th, by the first light of the dawn, we sighted the coast of France.
At lastttA twlinkling light beneath a roof, a house, dockyards, masts, a gradually emerging skyline Dunkirk! And now we are piloted into port, and men versed in politics, deeply moved but firm, bring us information, and colleagues of ours give us the news, and workmen pause in their work to greet us! '
Then Paris! A sea of human beings overwhelming us. Hosts of Frenchmen, already united to meet the
danger threatening France, their grave faces shining with the century-old idealism of France and her lofty pride. Hail, land of independence and valor- The reception given us by thee helped our souls to rise superior to
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