The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-01-11
Won MoLTKE

Won M0LTKE
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had to be postponed until today, for
the generals illness has now practical.
ly recovered. He received me this
morning in his private, simple apart
ment In the general staff building
ITSELF
Kind to America.
He greeted me very cordially and
wished me and all America Merry
Christmas. One is Immediately i'm
pressed by the tall imposing figure and
clear. snappy eyes of the General and
one becomes conscious in his pres
ence of being surrounded by an atmos-
phere definitely powerful.
The general asked me II had al.
ready been at the front.
When l said mo" he expressed the
hope that should be given the oppor-
tunity to see the troops in action and
get personal impression of the sple-
lid spirit, which in spite Of Losses and
pr1vations, animates every nj II in the
field today just as much as on the first
day Of the war
Our troops" he said, REFLECTED the
very same incomparably brave anu self
sacrificing attitude of the whole nation
which stands like a huge united mass
behind her sons in the field
EngIand's Motive.
Passing to the general situation Of
the war, General Won Moltke said:
This war, in which Germany and
Austria Hungary, her faithful ally. are
fighting side by side against half Of
Europe and Asia, means to England
nothing but the determination OF our
shipping, commerce and industry. She
simply wants our trade for herself.
Her pretext is to free the people of
Europe from the so called German
militarism.
1T is this very militarism which has
kept the peace of Europe for the past
43 years. Russia and France, who
promptly consented to enter Great
Britain's service, now shed taeir blood
for British 'maritimism' which is TO
reduce this country to state f serN i.
tude und to British arbitration
mundi.
=; ting For Life.
Consequently. and as n1tter OF
fact, Germany, not England. IS striv-
ing for the liberty of the nations. This
war has been forced upon Germany.
We are fighting for our exisCel ce and
we shall not stop fighting before vic
tory crowns our arms. This is. in the
best sense of the term, war of the
people, because it brought about a Won
derful display OF all that great NOR Il
strength and grit with which The Ger.
man is gifted. Every one OF US be 1t
the Kaiser or the youngest volunteers
is wholly and fully alive to the fact, in
that this war. not only Germany's ex-
istence, but also European civilization
is at stake.
Even during the war of 1870, which
resulted in a united Germany, the
country did not back the army with
such unparalleled unanimity and read
mess to make such sacrifices as you
are witnessing now.
Faith in Soldiers.
when in those days the siege Of
Paris never seemed to end, when new
armies, formed to relieve the French
capital, demanded an increasing num-
Der of victims, the voice OF Impotence
was heard at home. In the present
war, instead of Paris, we besieged
France Events do not follow each
other as quickly as in the beginning;
but nevertheless, all over Germany
there is nothing but absolute faith and
| trust in those who bear the brunt-ln
our brave men.
Everybody, prince and pauper, old
and young, is filled with determine
ton to stick it out at any price until
the end Just as important as this is
the fact that we are able to carry each
and every burden of this war. The
essence of it all, however. is this:
Germany and Germans can and will
be triumphant. Our forces are mex
haustible. There are more than three
million men upon whom We have not
yet drawn, not counting the constantly
growing list Of volunteers.
Russians Beaten.
"Similar to the armies that Operat-
ed in 1870 to relieve Paris, those Rus
sian masses, which were intended in
the present conflagration to relieve
France, advanced against our Austro-
Hungarian ally and ourselves, but for
| months France and England have vain
! ly pinned for the expected Russian help.
The Russian armies are beaten. All
their attempts to force their way into
the heart of Germany have failed.
They did not succeed in relieving
France, and they disappointed utterly
the hopes of all their western allies.
The siege of France will be carried
on. Nobody would even think of a
hollow truce. This answering iron
will to attain victory, this splendid
matureness which the German nature