Arizona republican., 1917-08-15
Kaiser Early Suggested
 AmerCn Ald Peace M0Ue

ment circles after my. return to Berlin that I gave an interview to a repre- sentative of a Munich newspaper, ex- pressing my faith in the coming of peace-although I was careful to say that it might be a matter of months or even years.
 Thereafter on many Occas sions the chancellor impressed upon me the fact that America must do something to- ward arranging a peace, and, if noth ing was done to this end that un- doubtedly public opinion in Germany less submarine war.
 Ambassador Gerard Resolves to Visit
 America
 In September of 1916. I having men tioned that Mrs. Gerard was going to the United States on short visit, Won JagoW insistently urged me also to go. in order to make every effort to in- duce the president to do something toward peace. AS a result of his urg- ing and as a result of my own desire to make the situation clear in America, sailed from Copenhagen on the 18th of September with Mrs Gerard, on the Danish ship Frederick VIII bound for New York. I 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 week ends in Silesia in 1914, with two weeks at Munich in the autumn two days at Munich and two days at Parten ] Kirchen in 1916, and two week-ends at HeringsdOrf in the summer of the same year, with visits to British prison camps scattered through the two and 1 a half years of war.
 On the Frederick VIII were Messrs. Herbert SWope, of the New York i World, and William c. Bullitt, of the i Phi. adelphia Ledger, who had been spending some time in Germany. I impressed upon each of these gentle men my fixed belief that Germany in- tended shortly, unless some definite move was made toward peace to con- mence ruthless submarine war and they made this view clear in the ar ticles which they wrote for their re- spective newspapers which were inn mediately republished by him in a book called Inside the German Elm pire" In Mir. Swope's book. on page 94, he says: The campaign for the ruthless U-boat warfare is regarded by one
 man in this country, who speaks
 with the highest German author
 ity, as being in the nature of threat intended to accelerate and
 force upon us Q movement toward
 peace. Ambassador Gerard had
 his attention drawn to this just
 before he left Berlin, but he de-
 clined to accept the interpretation. On page SS MT Swope writes:
 Our embassy in Berlin expected
 just such demonstration as was
 given by the U-53 in October. when
 she sank six vessels off Nantucket.
 as a lesson of what Germany could
 do in our waters if war came.
 On page "A he says further:
 Throughout Germany the agita ton for the resumption of ruth ess
 U-boat warfare of the Lustania
 type grows stronger day by day.
 The chancellor is holding out
 against it. but how long he can restrain it no one can say. l left Germany convinced that only peace could prevent it's resumption And the same opinion is held by every German with whom l spoke.
 and it is held also by Ambassador Gerard. The possibility was so
 menacing that the principal cause of the Ambassadors return in Oc- tober was that he might report to Washington. The point was set 1 out in press dispatches at that l time.
 I wrote a preface to MT. Swopes book for the express purpose of in this way informing the American public that l believed that Germany intended 1 at an early date to resume the ruth | less U-boat warfare.
 ! Our trip home on the Frederick VIII was without incident, except for the fact that on the eighth day of October | Swope came to the door of my state room about F o'clock at night and in l formed me that the captain had asked that he tell me the wireless had brought the news that German subma- rines were operating directly ahead ! of us and had just sunk six ships in the neighborhood of Nantucket. l inn agine that the captain slightly changed the course of our ship but the next day the odor of burning 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 Kirk wall from the top deck of the Freder- ick VIII, was taken off the boat by the British. The British had very ,'leverly spotted him doing this from the shore or from a neighboring boat, through a telescope
 Ships can only enter Kirkwa1 by daylight; at 6 o'clock every evening trawlers draw net across the en- trance to the harbor as a protection against submarines. A passage through this net is not opened until daylight the following morning.
 Captain Thomsen, of the Frederick VIII, which ship carried us to America and back to Copenhagen, by his evil dent mastery of his profession, gave to all of his passengers a feeling of confidence on the somewhat perilous voyage in those dangerous waters.
 Mr. Gerard Confers with President