Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-11-27

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repeated what had memorized
what the emperor had given me in tn.
secret chamber and immediatel,
7 afterward destroyed all visible trae.
Of said:
ION no account, it does not matter
what official commands you have re-
ceiyed or may receive, are you tc
use open force when the Panther
goes to Agadir. No matter what
stress is brought to hear upon you BY
arising conditions, no matter what af-
front may be done your code of naval
honor, you are under no circumstances
to use any force against France OF
England"
Like myself, when the emperor gave
me that message. the captain Of the
Panther was dumfounded. 1t was a
direct contradiction OF the official or
ders he had received from the foreign
Office to go to Morocco and make a
demonstration against the French and
the English interests. Those previous
orders had been to create war, this
verbal message was to stop warl
Could the German "Jingoes,p the
big gun manufacturers. the steel peo-
pie, the army and navy men, the
powerful faction, have heard me de-
liver that message to the captain of
the Panther, they would have bell
lowed with rage. The whole empire
wanted war, but the tired, swarthy-
faced man in the little underground
chamber at the Wilhelmstrasse, not
absolutely absolute" as he is popu-
larly supposed to be- deemed it wise
not to fly in the face of public opin-
ion at the time and countermand the
official orders to the Panther So he
had done so in the dark, verbally, by
me, knowing that so he served the
best interests of his empire
The rest is contemporary history
You remember how the Panther
to Morocco, how she forced
her way into the harbor of Agadir and
created an international sensation by
there about two weeks. You
remember how one French and one
English warship came almost stimuli
and how the officers md
everybody tingling to open fire, the |
terrible war that broke out in 1914 just |
missed being precipitated then You |
may not know that the British and |
French admirals sent a secret ultima |
-um to the captain of the Panther! |
Unless he left Agadir he would be
,orced to leave. That meant war.
The Emperor's Discovery.
Now had the captain of the Panther
lot received the private message from
he emperor, he would have been fore
ID by his naval code to resist this ul-
imatum by force. Had he gone there
icting under the original official orders,
ed war would have blazed across
europe in 1911 instead of 1914. The
lightest slip would have caused it
he report of rifle But the Panther
teamed away.
And this was the cleverest part of
he emperor's scheme: he knew that
rance and England were allies; he
id not know. though, just how sin
ere this alliance was. BY sending
he Panther into Agadir he learned
hat the entante cordiale really meant
that England and France
Tere allies. that they We're prepared ;
D resist Germany, shoulder to Shout
er in war.
1t took a master stroke to bring the
Ituation up to the point of WARRIOR
was dangerous business. with all
emany roaring for war-and then
vert war when Germany and France !
ere on the verge of it. But with
is verbal message the emperor |
lrewdly accomplished it. The re- s
hts were before him. BY creating {
lie situation he knew that he had
owerful nations opposed to him.
oodl
What ne would do now would be to
Ike one of those nations and. if pos :
BILE. secretly ally himself with it. /
aving the other out in the cold |
hen began the intrigues which re- c
Ilted in the isolation of France. as {
ie kaiser was led to believe. but q
hich recent events have proved to !
e contrary.
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