Arizona republican., 1917-09-01

transport, which meant complete re- organization of the British army.
 Emperor William read a speech Hal dane made to London Germans and invited him t0 attend the maneuverS Haldane was anxious to get useful in formation about the German organ- Zation so he accepted. On his way he visited King Edward who was stopping at Marienbad
 He there saw King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. says the Guardian, who was worrying King Edward with a project that if rumor is true, boded no good to Greece. King Edward very properly did not want to talk politics with Ferdinand. He told Lord Hal dane that he must put an end to all of Ferdinand's conversations with himself who could act only through my min iSterS. Haldane not desiring to hear Ferdinands projects against Greece, talked so Volubly on other topics that Ferdinand could not get in a word edgewise."
 The Guardian then relates a rtory of an English author of how Emperor William at the grand review ralloped up to Haldane who stood with top hat and frock coat in bis carriage and said:
 "A splendid machine I have in this army, MT Haldane. Isn't it so? What could I do without il, situated as I am between the Russians and the French? But the French are your allies, so I beg your pardon"
 Haldane replied that if he were in the emperOrs place he would feel quite comfortable
 Haldane and two assistants went thoroughly into the organization of the German war office, rubbing some of the officials the wrong way They afterward thaWed, however, Lieutenant General von Moltke, chief of the general staff in a conversation asked Haldane to put whatever questions he liked
 In this case" replied Haldane, T shall call for the plans for an invasion of England"
 Von Moltke replied: we have not one in the building"
 To which Haldane, looking out Of the window toward the admiralty, said perhaps they are there.'
 Won MOltke admitted that they were there and that they were very good plans too.
 The article gives for the first time Emperor Williams negotiation of the Bagdad railway agreement, While visiting Windsor castle in November 1907, Emperor William took Haldane aside the first evening of his visit and said how sorry he was there was so much friction over the Bagdad railway. My answer was we wanted a gate to protect India from troops coming down the new railway" said Haldane. Asked what he meant by gate, Hal dane replied that he meant control of the farthest off section of the rail- way-the one nearesl the Persian gulf To this EmEeror William replied:
 T will givey ou the gate"
 The foreign office regarded the ne- gotiations favorably but it was con- sidered necessary to bring in France and Russia whose interests also were involved. A conference in Berlin of the four powers was arranged with the support of Emperor William, but it was defeated at Berlin on the ground that an agreement about the Bagdad railway was no business of Russia This, says the article, was the first and clearest indication of two facts abOu. the German foreign policy-that the emperor was not quite master in his own house and that official Berlin was divided into two parties. one anX- iOuS for working agreement between England, France and Germany and another, not yet avoWed a war party regarding all these attempts hopeless
 
 some time afterward Emperor Will liam belonged to the first aprtv and genuinely was anxious for friendly re lations with England. The crow prince with Admiral won Tirpi'l an the general staff, and probably Prince von Buclow, belonged definitely to the second.
 The party division b4,ame mucf sharper and later was persisted in 5y (taaTev or7x- oft I..rr Haldane had German sympathizers ir the same sense that Emperor William had English sympathiZers who believed it was for the good of the world thai England and Germany should come tC an understanding. The key to Hal danes whole policy was. while prepar- ing against the eventual triumph o the anti-Engiish party. to strengthen as far as possible. those in Germany disposed to be friendly.