New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-04
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

I 10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On this day the older generation OF
the Austro-H Hungarian monarchy remembers,
with melancholy feelings, the Hateful ending
Of the Seven Weeks War. Shame, combined
with impotent rage, overcomes those loyal
veterans at the double thought that, during
the last decade or so of Francis Joseph's
senile reign, the proud capital of the Haps-
burgs has become political annex to Pots
dam. and that even the new. vigorous, young
Emperor seems to be no longer able to ex-
tricate himself and his empire from the
Prussian trap which has been set with a
diabolical skill by William II and his con-
federates.
Francis joseph. in 1864, was short sighted
enough to aid William in helping himself
to Schleswig- Holstein, increasing thereby in-
voluntarily the power and appetite of the
Hohenzolern dynasty. Napoleon III laughed
in his sleeve when the proud Hapsburs
monarch, Of whose predominant position in
the European concert he was wofuly jealous,
had been humbled to the dust. Four years
later his Koeniggraetz was spelled Sedan
Metz.
Had We Been Equally Blind
With all due respect to the otherwise
shrewd royal lady, 1t is fact that Victoria
was, in her turn. at least in the present
case, as genuine a Bourbon as was Francis
Joseph and Napoleon III. She and her states
men 'were equally blind to the growing
strength and ambition OF the descendants
of the little Margraves of Brandenburg The
old Queen was proud of her genial and Iowa
BILE grandson, and Lord Salisbury was kind
enough to make him present OF Helgoland
Albion needed the big Krupps and Skodas
laundering before Antwerp and Namur to
wake her up. Neither could the professional
historian, Woodrow Wilson, for over two
years decipher the signs of Clio, and but for
the brutal stupidity of the Tirpitz-Hinden-
burg gang Uncle Sam would have patiently
awaited his Koeniggraetz somewhere along
the Atlantic coast.
Happily for us and for all humanity
Nemesis Is at last close to her quarry, and
the predatory dynasty which intended to
gobble up the choicest morsels of this planet
of ours will. this year or in the year after
find its Sadowa on some hot spot between
the Asne and the Rhine.
II cannot, of course, be the purpose OF
this short memorial notice to enter into the
military details of the momentous struggle
between the we'll drilled troops of the Prus-
sian King, commanded by able, learned Off
GERS, and the brave Austrian army, cruelty
led TO the slaughter house by inefficient court
generals, favortes OF the camarillas of
Schoenbrunn and Goedoelloe.
War College Geography
The writer Of these lines can still remem-
Der the question asked, during a promenade
through a suburb of his native town, of his
Governor by group of high Austrian officers
galoping toward us: "Can you please tell
us the direction of the village Do" We were
dumfounded. They just came from there.
Then, these aristocratic ninnes were unable
to read the map of their own country
The situation a similar one in the
Franco-P russian War. The German officers
knew France better than the colonies and
generals raised 10 those commands by the
grace Of Empress Eugene and her ladies'
n-waitng. Well, we will owe it 10 Haig,
Petain, Pershing and Sarrail if the German
General staff and its resident American