New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-25
Admiral Won Coetz in 1898
Said Kaiser Would Take
Paris in Two Months
u. S. Coast Cities
Were To Be Seized
Plan Was to Get Money,
but Not Territory,
Says Lewis
srciai Correspondence

| ing the Kaiser's reply to the Pope's
peace note a deliberate and studied ef-
! fort to ignore and affront the United
/ States, Senator Lewis, of Illinois, in
| the Senate to-day uttered the hope that
America will not sheath the sword
until it's purpose is fully achieved.
To substantate the charge that the
| Prussian autocracy set out to crush
first England, then the United States
and dominate the world. Senator Lewis
/ quoted some unpublished history.
/ In the record of Admiral Dewey"
i said Mr.. Lewis, 1--WE find the statement
made by Admiral Won Goetz to Ad-
/ miral Dewey at Manila in 1898. As
quoted by Admiral Dewey, Won Goetz
said:
About fifteen years from now my
country will start great war. She
/ will be in Paris about two months
/ after the commencement of hostlli-
! ties. Her move on Paris will be but
step to her real object-the crushing
of England. Some months after we
/ finish our work in Europe We will
take New York. and probably Wash
ington, and hold them for some time.
/ We will put your country in its place
with reference to Germany. We do
not purpose TO take any OF your ter
ritory, but we do intend to take
! billion or so of your dollars from
( New York and other places. The Mon
roe Doctrine will be taken charge Of
! by us, and We will dispose of South
/ America as we wish. Don't forget
this, about fifteen years from now
Part of United States Records
"Tkis is part of the communication
which Admiral Dewey submitted TO this
! country and is to oe found in the
/ naval and military records of our gov
! ernment No. 3S, Volume So, page 55s
/ | never understood why my government
never allowed this to be published; |
never understood why it was never
sent broadcast to our country, to our
. countrymen, who heretofore had been
} in doub, as to their duty.
MANY Senators have opposed the
D ha
ment in prosecuting the war, despite
! the fact that the plan Of Germany to
| crush America has been established
: conclusively by this and other revela-
! tons.
81 say to that Senator who occupies
seat on this floor, wherever he is,
that so long as the Kaiser's reply TO
J the Pope remains as 1t IS now unmodl-
/ fed. with that daring and audacity to
! civilization, the man who now raises
! his voice in America in any assem-
blage of any kind condemning any
measure of his own country, crltlclslng
the undertaking of the United States,
! lends himself deliberately 10 the in
terests of the German Empire"
Admits He Erred
Senator Lewis confessed that he was
mistaken when a few weeks ago he
pronounced Chancellor Michaells's
speech a bid for peace and called upon
the Administration to seek peace nego-
tiations upon that assumption.
ain his reply to the Pope, Senator
Lewis said. "the Kaiser deliberately
refuses to agree to disarmament or
the freedom of the seas. He but says
that the proposition of the Pope
should find hopeful expression in the
new spirit that should prevail in the
future. He fouts the Pope and casts
disdan on the proposals OF the United
States for peace"
The late Admiral George Dewey, in
! his autobiography, describes his dlt-
/ ficulties with the German fleet IN Ma
/ Mia Bay as follows:
"The wish fathering the thought,
| the talk Of the town Manila was that
I the Germans would intervene in favor
| Of Spain.
"It was we'll known that Vice-Admiral
Won Diederichs had officially visited
! the Spanish captain general in Ma
| Mia. who had returned the visit at
night.
"Not only did the German officer
( frequently visit the Spanish troops and
/ outposts.. thus familiarizing them
/ selves with the environs of Manila.
/ but n Prince Loewenstein was taken
| off TO the Kaisern Augusta by one OF
! Agunaldo's staff.
"German man-of-war boats TOOK
soundings off Malabon and the mouth
of the Pasig River and German sea-
men were sent 10 occupy the light
house at the mouth of the Pasig for
several days.
"Tinally. without my permission,
they landed men for drill while
Admiral Won Diederichs occupied
large house which had been the quar-
ters of the Spanish officials.
"On the 9th | was informed by the
insurgents that the Germans had been
, interfering with their operations
against the Spaniards in Subig Bay.
Others have told how the German
feet took up a battle formation as
! though threatening TO attack the
/ American fleet, and how the British
| feet Immediately steamed between the
Germans and the Americans. this end
I ing the incident.
New Yorker Killed at Front