The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-19
A GERMAN VIEW
CHICAGO MAN RETURNING FROM
EUROPE SAYS WAR WILL BE
OVER IN A WEEK.

ShlCd6Oy aug 1Js-AAdA II l
burg, circulation manager of the Chi
cago Tribune, who has just returned
from Europe, prints the following in
| terview:
Germany will win,
No other outcome of the great
| European struggle is possible, in
view of the facts-facts that the cen |
sorship withholds from the world.
Germany will win. is winning now,
by both might and right.
| am just home from a sojourn
| abroad, spent in the war torn coun-
| tries through hat tense period of
| preliminaries and notifications. IL
| studied the situation there at first
hand, and l have returned TO Chicago
| with a view of the situation that no
| ~anti-German censorship would pass,
| NV observations covered the centers
| of activity in England, France, Ger
| many, Holland and Belgium. | was
| in Paris July 16, and | sailed from
| England Aug. 5. In that time the
| war clouds gathered and the storm
| broke.
Here and now | forecast that a
| week from Sunday will find France
| and Belgium conquered by Germany,
| England suing for peace, and Russia
| not even in the fight.
A few hours at home and my OBJ
| seryations across the country from
| New York convince me that our pub
| lie has not been allowed to learn
| how the war started, why it started,
| and what it is about.
/ am convinced that the plot which
| cost the life of the heir of Emperor
| Francis Joseph of Austria was a Ser
/ Wan plot; that the assassination was
a crime committed by a nation.
/ Even the bombs used were traced to
| Servlan arsenals. 1t is easy to under
| stand why Servia protested against
Austrian investigation. That could
have meant only exposure to the
wosd of the Servian conspiracy to de-
stroy the Austrian royal house.
There is no room for question that
Russia, in support of the pan-Slayic
movement, urged Seryia on in her at
| titude of defiance of Austria.
Every one in Europe knew the sig
niicance of the situation; the inter
relation of alliances, pacts and in
trigues.
When Russia began the mobiliza-
ton of troops in a position to men
ace the German frontier there was
only one thing left for Kaiser VIII
helm to do. He demanded eXplana-
tions from st. Petersburg-and ne
got nothing.
Germany was forced to mobilize
for self-protection.
A few hours were enough to SHOW
that Germany would have to hght,
and the kaiser, like every other good
fighter. struck the first blow. n
struck it quickly. Every good Amer
lean appreciates the advantage oil get
ting in 1.-The first wallop."
Let there be no mistake, either,
about the attitude of the German peo-
pie and the German army. The
kaiser is the most loved men in
Europe. There is no more stanch
and loyal soldier in the world than
the German soldier.
/ Germany has been prepared for
this war for more than forty years.
Germany has an army that stands be-
yond comparison with any other
force in Europe. 1t has loyalty, am
| munition, guns and brains.
;, Inside of a week the Germans will
!, march through Belgium and France
AIS "A RldHl MOhtd l0S
kindergarten. Germany has nothing
: to fear from England.
/ saw the soldiers of the fighting
mowers: 1 talked with them and with
. their officers. | watched them as
; they drilled, on duty, and at ease
strolling the streets. / know that
! Germany has nothing to fear on the
land. -.
AI~f LIZ OlQ ND has n mig
4 payy-perhaps a great nayy-but no
body knows what Ii can do. LII never
a has been in an engagement.
Besides, Germany does not have 10
fight England on the sea.
France is a corrupt and mmora
[ nation. A few years more, and
France would have extinguished IT.
: self. Belgium is not much better.
But Germany is in the full bloom oil
health and power.
Germany may have, and is having.
a little trouble on the frontier, but II
has its army on h way.
And as for Russia, 1T is hardly
worthy of consideration in the wal
game. Russia is a disloyal, disorgan'
: lied nation. Its armament is 10th
ing.
The car DelleNeS the wal 'oL
save his crown a few years more. HI
welcomed the war as a hope to re
: unite his unhappy people. When thu
q Russian army goes into action thu
soldiers will be as ready to throw
down their guns and run as they
were in the Russo-Japanese
The situation in England is some
O what like that in Russia. The wal
was a ten strike" for the British
government as a temporary solution
at least, of the Irish trouble.
e The people of London do not wan
war. / was in Trafalgar square tn
night of Sunday, Aug. 2, when $4,000
, people gathered there under banners
bearing the legend. Thou Shalt No
u Kill"
The working of the censorship !
astonishingly successful. No CORE
spondent in London is allowed t.
send the truth.
In London the papers are flie'
with tales Of German defeat, never
; word of German victory. Yet w
know there have been German vic
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