The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-16

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Blu, the big men OF Germany. IN
men who have TO look ahead and guid
q the empire after the war, do not hat
America. They feel too keenly tina
they need America. and they would lik'
to stem Ahe tide OF hate before IL be
comes mutual and the people OF Tia
United States are alienated, perhaps fol
all time.
"They know that after the war there
Is only one country In the world where
they can get the money they shall
/ need. America. and they are worrying
plenty nowadays. They. and all Ger
many, want increasingly a peace that
shall specify, among other things. the
right to purchase raw as well as fin
! lshed materials anywhere in the world
on the same terms as any other nation.
EVERY indication points to prob
able confiscation Of property and repu-
diation OF perhaps half the war loan
totals after the war. Even the per
centage Of property TO be confiscated
Il being talked of, and II seems prob.
able that the government will take
twenty per cent OF everything.
"on the other hand it seems probable
from all | hear that an even half of
all outstanding war loans win be nulli
fed. The seventh will suffer exactly as
the first ana the first as the seventh.
Fifty per cent will be repaid, and the
other fifty per cent will either be can.
called or will merely continue TO pay
interest-will be a sort of perpetual in
vestment, the capital for which cannot
be realized.
"As surely as anything can be pre-
dicted there will be in the central pow.
ers a series of laws forbidding emigra-
ton And in anticipation Of them
countless Germans today are talking
about ways and means of getting away
after the war South and North Amer
ica, and peculiarly enough New Zealand
and Australia, are the havens to which
they speak of fleeing. The first Ger
man ship that lands i'm America after
hcstilities will leave fifty per cent of
its crew behind.
1T is becoming clearer and clearer
20 Germans every day that all the talk
that has gone the rounds about a cen
tral Europe" after the model of Pro
fessor Naumann and others will be out
of the question.
Contrary to the belief that seems
to be almost universal outside of Ger
many, / really believe that Pan-Ger-
manism is on the decrease rather than
the increase among the masses of the
people, and this despite the increased
noise about it everywhere in Germany
and the intensive way in which ii is
being encouraged. The reason for this
is that more and more the German
people are coming to realize what a ca
tastrophe il will be for them after the
war is over If they are hated in all the
world. Pan-Germanism. they are com
ing to feel. is likely to intensity the
feeling against them. and thereby make
their economic struggle in the future
mere difficult.
The American then touched briefly on
Austro-German relations and cautioned
against any hope that Austria will fall
away from her big ally, for, he ex-
plaine1. she it too dependent financially
and militariy, TO be able to shake
loose, much as she might like to do
so. The German military authorities
see to it that German soldiers are in
termingled with Austrian troops. not
only to spur them on in fighting but
also to prevent their quitting.
Regarding the naval and military sit
uation he told of mutinies aboard bat
tleships as hinted at by Won Capelle. |
The men had. he said, dismounted guns
and threw them overheard. had as |
saulted officers and refused to obey or
ders, in the hope Of Gripping the Ger |
man navy and bringing about peace
Of desperation in that way. The mu- |
tinous forcest however. had not been |
large or strong enough to accomplish |
much. and had been put down. Most |
IF them were shot, others in exception |
al cases had been put back into SER
vice on their promise to be good.
This spirit. he continued. EXTENDED
10 the army also, famed 10 a fame
by sectional jealousy and
iislike. Thus he said he knew that
miniature battles had been fought be
.ween Bavarian and Prussian trops
md that certain troops on the east
ront had on one occasion mutinie1 and
declared in favor Of marching on Ber-
in rather than Petrograd. Naturally
III news about these and similar clash
IS had been carefully suppressed and
eaked out only when the soldiers re-
urned or wrote home, in the same way
hat sailors in Hamburg and Kiel
pread the first reports of the mutinies