Face to Face with Kaiserism

ary Co

ay; but, of course, he did not know about the note of Austria to Servia either! The Marine people are positively raging. The paper which Reven

now of march

. The Emperor is now in the West. The Foreign Office leads the rejoicing over the Entente's invasion o

re-deaths and prices. Six hundred and eighty thousand killed to October

come of this fight. It is possible that von Falkenhayn and the army party may sustain the Chancellor as against von Tirpitz. It is quite likely that a sort of safe

have Lemberg in a few days. This may prevent Roumania coming in. There is talk here of an attempted revolution in Moscow. There is said to be jealousy of Hindenburg and on account of this, Mackensen was p

with America; but some are in favor of the continuance of bitter submarine war, notably

e Serbs inquired if they could get peace and re

must deal with Austria alone-and Austria says that she will not include Ita

The people still are well in hand. Constant rumours of peace keep them hopeful. Men over forty-five not yet called. They seem to have plenty of troops. The military are careless of the public opin

a great industrial centre, and the Volkzeitung, a Socialist pa

tart with the questio

r their agricultural products and pay only a small sum, sixty pfennig daily, for the prisoners of war who now work their fields. They may,

Line have risen enormously in price from fifty-six to one hundred and forty in one case. This may be caused by a

t can drag a rifle has been drafted for the army, with the p

y women working on the

r is named von der Heyde

Greece will stay out of the war.

Brand Whitlock. For some time they have

t possible American competition. I hope the Democrats will give protection

ht of debt by incurring large debts for war purp

o go back and also the Germans are keeping him in stock in case the Young Turks go out of pow

king Spaniards about, possibly c

a large subsidy by England, Russia, and Fr

d has now been fo

ation in the conquered portion of Poland

, stacks of ammunition and had begun preparing last spring for the present attack, even lit

to tell me that at the annual meeting to-day of the great Allegemeine Electricit?ts Gesellschaft a fight was started against him because of hi

Schmidt just in from Servia says

tting the Germans to give th

ricans wors

ngs for English prisoners; they only say they hop

noddy's mission not yet bein

eichstag. Soon disbanded by the police with many arrests. One man told me that they were tired of a silly war and days witho

r. The women storm the

he Consulate is) they are

S, WITHOUT AUTHORITY, UNDERTOOK TO MAKE PRISONERS SUFFER FOR ALLEGED AND UNPROVED MISDEEDS OF THE

DE

nd particularly German women and children who remain in England, has caused the withdrawal of all privileges formerly gr

ing has been limi

hlan, was shot dead early on the 7th

s been summoned to a Military Trial ow

be

und Kom

enenlagers

the members who are all in Berlin, and then swim with it. Many members, who are not Socialists, favour peace

d do things it did not dream of doing six months ago

t yet time for peace. This is a Government measure

er. Of course, the Germans have rather a difficult time with so many prisoners, b

e making a study of German industrial conditions. I introduced him to Gutmann, of the Dresdner Bank; Rathenau, head of the Allege

deep-seated hatred of America here, whi

sy, but I wish to goodness all

ll thinks Greece w

oil for machines, etc. Germans claim to have a

urse, for the refusal of the usual permission is that the Germans, through the notorious Sir Roger Casement, have been trying to seduce the Irish, and do not want the soldier prisoners to tell us about it. I have learned, through other sources, that the Germans seduced

ona note. There is a large body of manufacturers, ship-owners, etc., here who at the last moment declare themselves against war with the U. S. A. and

Boy-ed even with safe conduct; whether they will ask the r

America to buy up the product of the Dupont Powder Company,

th whom I have talked ar

hrough its Minister in China, to come to

all safe-deposit box holders, tryin

church body has refused to receive an American Chu

litary Attaché will be sent to America

er. There are many things I want to tell the Pres

ann the other day, and Zimmermann sent some messages by him to the President.

ting Victor Lawson and the Chicago Daily News. He informs me that the Spy Nest is contemplating

will eventually give in on the Ancona business. I think the pres

assador ever suffered as much from

times, paid more attention to the tales of pro-German American co

Berlin an agent of the German Government who possessed American citizenship was always ready to arrange tr

before all was continually dangled the blue ribbon-the hope of an interview with the Kaiser-a

I may some day use. In this he states how one of these gentlemen claimed that the Imperial Chancellor always sent for him to consult him on his attitude towards Ame

gang went about Berlin personating me. Wh

weak in being advised by one

Ford or any of his angels to come here, b

s are much more bitter against

ht the feeling here against America was so bi

lowing anony

oon as possible. The financial aspect given by Dr. Helfferich is disastrous, the military situation, taken in the whole, unsatisfactory and the confidential information, given by Herr von Jagow in the committee with regard to the Egyptian expedition, discouraging if not hopeless. The Government and particularly Herr von Bethmann wish for peace, but believe themselves restrained by public

XII.

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