Arizona republican., 1917-08-31

feast and spoiled the picture. After luncheon the emperor hal long talk with Colonel House, and then called, me into the conversation.
 On May 26 arranged that the colo nel should meet von Tirpitz at dinner in our house. We dld not guess then what a central figure in this war the great admiral was going to be. At that time and until his fall he was a minister of marine. which corresponds to our secretary of the navy depart ment, and what is called in German, "Reichsmarineamt" The colonel met the chancellor. von Jagow, Zimmerman and many others
 There are two other heads of depart ments connected with the navy Of equal rank with the secretary of the naval department and not reporting to him. These are the heads of the naval staff and the head of what is known as the Marine Cabinet The head of the , naval staff is supposed to direct the actual operations of warfare in the navy and the head of the marine cabi- net is charged with the personnel of the navy, with determining what of | ficers are to be promoted and what of ficers are to take over what ships or commands
 | While von TirptZ was secretary of the navy, by the force of his personality | he dominated the two other depart ments. but since his fall the heads of i these two other departments have held positions as important as that of sec retary of the navy, if not more import | ant.
 On May 31 we took Colonel and Mrs. ! House to the aviation field at Joa- chimsthal. Here the Dutch aviator | Fokker was flying, and after being in l troduced to us he did some stunts for our benefit. Fokker was employed by i the German army and later became a naturalized German. The machines de- signed by him and named after him for long time held the mastery of the l air on the west front
 The advice of Colonel House, d most wise and prudent counsellor. was at all times of the greatest value to me during my stay in Berlin. We exchanged let ters weekly, I sending him a weekly 1 bulletin of the situation in Berlin and much news and gossip too personal or too indefinite to be placed in official reports.
 War with Germany seemed a thing not to be even considered when in this month of May, 1914, called on the for eign office by direction to thank the imperial government for the aid given 1 the Americans at Tampico by German ships of war.
 Early in February MT. $. Bergman, a German who had made a fortune in America and who had returned to Ger many to take up again his German citizenship, invited me to go over the great electrical works which he had established. Prince Henry of Prussia | the brother to tie emperor, was the only other guest, and together we in- spacted the vast works, afterwards having lunch in MT. Bergmanns office Prince Henry, German Propagandist ir
 America
 Prince Henry has always been in
 terested in America since his visit here l OU lIldl NiSll He spent IIlOSl OI HIS Illilt
 with German societies and the like. O.
 course, now we know ne came as Z | propagandist with the object of weld
 ing together the Germans in America and keeping up their interest in thu Fatherland. He made similar trip tt
 the Argentine just before the great wa
 with similar purpose, but I under stand his excursion was not considered
 a great success from any standpoint
 A man of affable manners, no one i
 better qualified to go abroad as a Ger
 man propagandist than he If all Ger
 mans had been like him there woul,
 have been no world Var in 1914. On March IS we were invited to !, fancy dress ball at the palace of tn crown prince. The guests were mostl young people and officers. The crow , princess wore beautiful Russian dres with it's characteristic high frontpiec
 on the head. The crown prince and a l the officers present were in the pictur esque uniforms of their respective regi | ments of a period of 100 years agt 5 Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the kai |, ser looked particularly we'll a' The hours for balls in Berlin, wher