The Washington times., 1917-09-26

Won Jagow insistently urged me also
to go, in order to make every effort
to induce the President to do some
thing toward peace. As a result OF
his urging and as a result OF my own
desire to make the situation clear
in America, sailed from Copenhagen
on the 2Sth Of September with Mrs
Gerard, on the Danish ship Frederick
VIII bound for New York. had
spent almost three years In Berlin,
having been absent during that time
from the city only five or six days
at Kiel and two weak-ends In Silesia
in 1914, with two weeks at Munich
in the autumn, two days at Munich
and two days at Parten Kirchen In
1915, and two week-ends at Herings-
dorf in the summer of the same
year, with visits to British prison
camps scattered through the two and
a half years Of war.
On the Frederick VIII were Messrs.
Herbert Swope, OF the New York
World, and william C. Bullitt, of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, who had
been spending some time in Germany.
1 impressed upon each of these gen.
tlemen my fixed belief that Germany
intended shortly, unless some def
mite move was made toward peace,
to commence ruthless submarine war
and they made this view clear in the
articles which they wrote for their
respective newspapers:
Immediately RepubIlshed.
Mr.. Swope's articles, which appear
ed in the New York World, were i'm
mediately republished by him in a
book called Inside the German EN-
pire." In Nj. Swope's book, on page
o., he says:
"The campaign for the ruthless u
boat warfare Is regarded by one man
in this country, who speaks with the
highest German authority, as being
In the nature OF a threat intended to
accelerate and force upon us a move
ment toward peace. Ambassador
Gerard had his attention drawn to
this just before he left Berlin, but
he declined to accept the interpreta-
ton"
On page So Mr.. Swope writes:
''Our embassy in Berlin expected just
such q Demonstration as was given
by the Use in October, when she
sank six vessels off Nantucket, as
q lesson OF what Germany could do
In our waters IL war came"
" 4hl. S"Opc
book for the express purpose of ia
this way informing the American pub
lie that 1 believed that Germany in
tended at at an early date to resume
the ruthless U-boat warfare.
Our trip home on the Frederick
VIII was without incident, except for
the fact that on the Sth day OF octo-
Der Swope came to the door OF my
stateroom about IL o'clock at night
and informed me that the captain
had asked that he tell me the wireless
had brought the news that German
submarines were operating directly
ahead of US, and had Just sunk six
ships in the neighborhood Of Nan
tucket. 1 imagine that the captain
slightly changed the course of our
ship, but next day the odor of burn
ing oil was quite noticeable for hours.
These Danish ships in making the
trip from Copenhagen to New York
were compelled to put in at the port
OF Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands,
north OF Scotland, where the ship was
searched by the British authorities.
On the occasion OF our visit to Kirk
wall, during this trip, a Swede. who
had been so foolish as to make a
sketch of the harbor and defenses OF
Kirkwall from the top deck of the
Frederick VIII, was taken off the
boat by the British. The British had
very cleverly spotted him doing this