Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-23
How Bismarck Provoked War
With France Az Years Aeo

Much has beer said il recent Years reeardin tha m.nBar q vbmhw %
vas asp provoked g IS r VIII . France. ~ TIE part e esrnsny ~ 1870, and what =
known ash e Ems dispatch has figured id the mater 10 a large extent
The deception praetceds By Bismarck ay odd years ago seems Is nave
been emulated H. 1914 ~ provoke he present war.
The Christian Science Monitor III Boston, through is WASHINGTON q.
Ieap, rec se.a ne facts relative 81 the Ems dispatch and shows wherein
Prince Bismarckss deception brought q the war, the result 81 which Mas ts
loss Ct Alsacelorraine W The French and tie acquisition thereof b the
Germans ana which today Is bone Of contention.
When the Bourbon queen, Isabella. had fled IRON snain NJ 1sas NE ennt
ws mad to find q new monarch and ii 4 result the throne at onered
= rfa ssl Ls0p aa g enzohernslgmaIing The offer ft iss believed
came cam thIough Bismareks secret agent ~ Madrid. II was rejected II the
time but was renewed ia 1870 and Prince Leopolds withdrawal q this time
as approved by the Prussian king Wilhelm.
Meantime, Bismarck, ~ what he termed the reptile press had been
goadIngt tn chauvenishc French press into fury. He and a Dr. Busch had been
them as to make II appear that 8Frenchmen were the authors This served
= arou s resentment il Germany. Some Of the very worst OF these BIS
1narck8 himself wrote
Alshad hidden in them the poison ii asps and were intended 10 produce
{ conala0n g tension @ each side of the Rhine, which, when the hnal
as given, would cause the cords of peace to snap with the
report of a cannon.
1t was at this moment that Prince Bismarck,s canine nrodpcea tba
result he had hoped for Twelve hours after the French ambassador had
received the paper announcing the princes withdrawal war was j certainty
The Due de Gramont, determined o either producing a confIagrauon s.
humihating the king, sent the ambassador again 50 request al Undertaking
ING Leopod's announcement vas final and would not be revived att
any later period The king, however had gone as far as q intended. He
explained perfectly coureouslys to the French ambassador the impossibiIty
q his tying his hands fol all time, and sent his aidedecamp to inform him
11 ha q 2 g received notice Of the omcial withdrawal Of the prince, and that
ne approved Of it a little later he again sent his aide-decampS Is the
ambassador to inform him that he was leaving d the following morning for
NopNnz 2 that ne would e glad To- receive hin at the station. It was
out Of this meeting that there grey the famous story that the king had
followed. prAs ~ - ~ naua
Nothing whatever S. the srt had occurred: what had occurred was
courteousIy with the French Ambassador, proceeded to Send 4 CIPHER dis
patch e Prince Bismarck, through Abeken. from Ems. This dispatch ar
1lVed While the prince was dining with Won Molke and yn Room, and after
reading it three times he turned and asked MoHke a question as to the
epaTedne OIL the army. and on receiving Al reassurng answer, sat down at
= lahe to DIT the kings message. The kings instructions to the chan
cehor a been TO publish or8 withhold his account of his meeting with the
French ambassador and TO publish it either in full 81 ii part d have left
the head and the tall Bismarck declared Is d Moltke and Won Room
aIter he q edited IT and when the two soldiers had read the new edition.
NY decaTeo .Magmhcent! That Will dol At this time, though only the
thIee men new y var had become y certainty. IF IS his majesty com
h Bismarck declared, s. communicate 1T at once to the papers and
.eieslapn 81 70 y or mbassies ~ will be known in Paris by midnight
MOI ~ 2 Y What " says. but also by the way IT. will be circulated, III viii
cave TN eHect OF a red flag to the GaNic bull. Success depends above alt
@ IN impression that the origin of the var will provoke anong IN and
mons them It is essential that we should be attacked
- ~ ioaueuu e Ws east" BY midnight the new was in Paris
= Already tn Paris mob was yelling along the boulevards. "a Berlni .
erhn Similar scenes, too, were being enacted in Berlin. n the king
s EMILY years after the original draft raj demanded by and com
Mnicated 70 tn reichstag by Count. CaprvI and what Bismarck had done
became Immediately apparent.