Arizona republican., 1917-08-17
TILE WESTERN THEATRE
NO INCIDENT ON FRENCH FRONT. The following Is . translation of the French eommunique @ issued by the Press Bureau on Thursday afternoon =
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Hindenburg was but the front and that the brains of the combination had been furnished by Ludendorff Many Germans in a position to know told me that the real dictator of Gerr many was Ludendorff.
 My trip to America was made prin- cipally at the instance of Von Jagow and the chancellor and in my farewell ! talk with the chancellor a few days before leaving I asked if it could not be arranged, since he was always say ing that the civilian power was infer for to that of the military, that should see Hindenburg and Ludendorff before I left This proposed meeting | he either could not or would not ar range. Shortly after my return I again asked the chancellor whether I could see if not the emperor at least Hind enburg and Ludendorff, whom the chancellor said were the leaders of the military, and therefore, the lead CTS of Germany. Again I was put off
 In the meantime, and in spite of the official assurance given to me, certain men in Germany in a position to know | tended to resume ruth ess submarine war Ludendorff, they said, had de- clared in favor of this war, and, ac- cording to them that meant it's adop- 1 tion.
 At first I thought that Germany would approach the resumption of ruthless submarine war via the armed merchantmen issue.
 The case of the Yarrowdale prison CTS seemed to bear out this theory.
 A German raider captured and sunk 1 a number of enemy vessels and sent I the Yarrowdale, one of the captured boats, with a prize crew to Swine munde. On board, held as prisoners
 were number of the crews of the captured vessels, and among those men I learned, under the rose" were some
 Americans. The arrival of the Tar
 rowdale was kept secret for some time
 but, so soon as I received information
 of it's arrival I sent note after note to
 the foreign office demanding to know
 whether. there were any Americans
 among the prisoner crews.
 For a long time received no ans
 wer, but finally Germany admitted
 what I knew already viz, that Ameri- I cans taken with the crews of captured
 ships were being held prisoners of war
 the theory of the Germans being that
 all employed on armed enemy mer- II chant ships were enemy combatants I supposed that possibly Germany
 might therefore approach the subma-
 rine controversy by this route ana
 c aim that armed merchantmen were
 liable to be sunk without notice.
 Instructed by the State Department
 demanded the immediate release ot
 the Yarrowdale prisoners. This was
 accorded by Germany, but after the
 breaking of relations the prisoners
 were held back, and it was not unti after we left Germany that they were
 released.
 I asked permission to visit these prisoners, and sent MT. Ayrault ant
 MT. Osborne to the place where knew they were interned The per mission to visit them arrived, but Ol the same day orders were given to re move the prisoners to other camps Mr. Osborne and MT. Ayrault, how ever, being on the ground, saw tn prisoners before their removal and re ported on their condition.
 A German American Love Feast |t On January 6 the American Asso citation of Commerce and Trade gay me a dinner at the Hotel Adlon. Thi I was made the occasion of a sort 0 German-American love feast. Zim mermann, although he had to go earl in the evening to meet the foreig minister of Austro- Hungary, wa | present, Hefferich, vice chancello and secretary of the interior; Docto | Solf, the colonial minister; Sydov | minister of commerce; Dernburg; Vo Gwinner, of the Deutsche bank; Gut