The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-02

copyright, 1917, by PUCK PuDnSn1ng
Corporation)
Puck has published the first OF
a series of articles exposing the efforts
made by the German government In
1902 to create a rupture between this
country and Great Britain and to To-
ment a civil war in the United States,
in which the entire German-Ameri-
can population was to rise in arms
and take possession of the govern
ment at Washington in behalf of the
Kaiser, and for the furtherance of
his pan-German world policy.
Though appearing in a satirical
publication this is a serious and time
ly exposure Of Teutonic deceit and
the diabolical attempt to turn the
United States over to the authority OF
the Prussian miliaristic regime. The
article says, in part:
For the first time the secret history
of Germany's intrigue. against Great
Britain during the visit Of Prince
Henry to the United States is pre-
scented in these pages. 1t is a chapter
of unparalleled intrigue, faithlessness
and treachery such as is fortunately
but rarely chronicled m the annals
of the world.
Never before has there been a more
impudent attempt to hoodwink, by
mere act of political jugglery, whole
people into the belief that black was
white, that the nation whom they had
regarded as their deadliest foe was in
truth their very best friend and that
vice-versa, their brethren beyond the
sea whose language they spoke. and
whose blood ran in thir veins had in
the hour of their need been trying
to betray them.
49,, r,vC
duced in Washington and throughout
the country when, in 1902, the news
first arrived that Prince Henry of
| Prussia, the Kaiser's brother was to
pay us formal visit. Just at that
| time the greater part of the Ameri-
can press was outspokenly hostile to
Germany, charging it with sinister
designs against the Monroe doctrine!
A communication was sent through
the usual channels saying that on ac-
count of the illness of the eldest son
of the President, Theodore Roosevelt,
Junior, then sick with bronchitis, the
| journey of Prince Henry would, in all
probability, have to be postponed.
Promptly the peply was cab1ed from
Berlin that, even if the worst should
happen there would be no reason to
postpone the journey as the Prince
would come not to visit the President
! hut the German population Of the
United States.
+ Almost simultaneously with the an
lnouncement OF the coming of the roy
al guest a systematic press campaign
was begun both in Germany and
! America, for the purpose of convin-
cling the people of the United States
Of the .told historical friendship" of
Germany and of exposing Great Bril-
tain as the old historical enemy of
this country.
! Germany has completely turned
the table on Great Britain" was the
Ecomment of those American papers
! inspired by the German Embassy.
Princes visit? All the 1(paid) news
papers agreed that England had too
long played the role of guide, philoso-
pher and friend to the United States
lin its international relations.
| All this was to be changed by the
visit Of the Prince whose flying trip
Through the country resembled in
deed that Of a conquering hero. The
IGerman-Americans rose like one
man.
/ On the testimony of his own eyes
the Prince could report to his I'm
perial brother that Ambassador Won
Holleben had spoken nothing but the
TRUTH when making the statement to
an American Journalist that any
| trouble arising between Germany and
America would be in the nature OF
a bloody civil war.
i While the triumphant pageant OF
| the Prince was still in progress, q
dark cloud rose on the political hor-
izon. The indignation of the Admin
istration at what must appear to II
as an intentional insult, as a deliber-
ate attempt on the part of the Kaiser
Ito NEEDLE with the internal affairs
of gthe United States, was reused te
la dangerous degree, and it seemed az
/ If the threatening tempest woul6
burst while the guest was still or
American soil. But Prince Henry wa!
ultimately allowed to depart in peace
though Immediately after his depar
i ture Ambassador Won Holleben fount
himself in the centre of a furious
Thunderstorm that played havoc witt
his reputation and led to his dis
graceful recall from his post.
The American government coult
not forget the disgraceful press cam
paign that ragged for years in tn
German press against the Unitet
States during the Spanish America1
war, and was openly encouraged b,
: the German government.
) Still more offensive to the Wash
ington government and far graver i
its character than the furious anti
American oartburst of the reptile Ger
man press was the behavior at tina
critical juncture of the German flee
lrthen cruising in Chinese waters.
At the farewell dinner given IL
honor of the Prince by the America
Ambassador in Berlin, the Honorabl
Andrew D. White, His Royal High
ness made the following statement
''I know you Americans feel very sor
about affairs in the East, and I d
not blame you. We made grea
terror and I myself made a mistake.
# the Kaiser, had sent the Gern1a
navy to the Bay of Manila in toxic
Of the "old historical friendship fe
by Germany for the United StateI
the acts of Admiral Won Dietrich wer
ceretainly not those of friend. Ac
cording to General Wesley Merit
U. s. A.. first military governor {
Manila and a. personal friend of A6
miral Dewey, the conduct of the GEL
mans at the time of Manila's fall wa
decidedly sinister. To quote the Ger
erals own words:
81 had been in the Philippines
three weeks before a. German Of
ficer called to pay his respects.