The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-14
GERMANY READY. FOR GREAT WAR
 EARLY IN JUNE Evidence Shows She Was Preparing For Trial of Strength At That Time. COMPREHENSIVE
 STUDY OF THE WAR Prof. Harding of Indiana Brings Out Some New
 Facts in Pamphlet.

Before June 28, 1914, Germany Wllled, if not war, at least another trial of diplomatic strength in which the threat of war should enter as a | decisive factor.' Such is the conclu- sion to which Professor Samuel E. Harding of Indiana University, comes in the third chapter of his ninety-six page pamphlet entitled "The Study of the Great War;" just issued by the | Committee on Public Information, and distributed free upon application to 10 Jackson Place, Washington, D. | C..
 The fact that in 1913 before the murder of the Archduke Franz Fer dinand on the fateful 18th of June, 1914, Austria notified Italy that she | proposed then to attack Serbia, is one bit of evidence relied upon by 1 Professor Harding. Also secret mili- | tary report of the German army which fell into the possession of the French government shows that Ger many was making extraordinary prep arations in 1913 for an immediate war. In an interview with King AL bert of Belgium in November of the same year, the German kaiser gave the impression that war with France was certain, and sought to win Bel gium to Germany's side. Various | practical measures looking to war were also taken before the Sarajevo murders. The military laws of 1911, 1912 and 1913 greatly increased the German army. The reconstruction of the Kiel Canal was hurried to con- pletion easily in 1914. Steps were taken to stir up revolt in South Afri- ca and in British India. Secret coal ing orders dated June IA, 1914, two weeks before the assassinations, were Il issued to the German cruiser Eber at Cape Town which contemplated an immediate outbreak of war.
 There is much evidence, too, relat-
 ing to accumulation of war materials,
 the transfer of bank balances, etc.
 and a circular dated June g, 1914, is
 cited, ordering all owners of factories
 to open the mobilization envelopes in
 their possession.
 Finally, the evidence is presented showing that a secret conference of German and Austrian generals and
 officials was held at Potsdam, near
 Berlin, on July 5, 1914, and that it
 was at this council that the actual
 steps leading up to the war were
 agreed upon.
 The following is quoted from Max
 milan Harden in Die Zukunft for Au-
 gust 1, 1914:
 "In the Viennese note to Serbia, whose brazen arrogance has no prece.
 dent in history, each phrase bears witness that Austria Hungary desired
 the war. Only the war, for which the best minds of the army werr thirsting, could cure the fundamenta ; ills of the two halves of the Austrian } Empire, and of the monarchy. Only } the refusal and not the acceptance ol the claims put forward in the nott l could have profted Vienna. 5 "The question has been asked . Where was the plan of the campaign . elaborated-in Vienna or Berlin
 And some hasten to reply: In Vienna t Why do people tolerate the propaga 5 tion of such dangerous fables? Wh! 5 not say the thing that is (because i !, must bel, namely, that a complet ] understanding in all matters existed 1 between Berlin and Vienna?" Space is given in the final chapte to brief consideration of the ques
 tions whether this will be the las e great war. The requirements ar
 sketched both for League to enforc
 peace and for world federation, an , the triumph of the United States an h the Allies over militarist and despoti f Germany is regarded as giving eth e best assurance of the establishment > of a league of peace and the practice o ending of war"
 F. Many of the quotations of evidenc d are from sources not easily accessibl n to the general reader. The followin
 illustrate the German plans of worl ,e dominion and reliance upon brut a force:
 IS God has called us to civilize tn y world; we are the missionaries of hu Id man progress. ."-(Kaiser Williar T. II.)
 ''The German race is called to bin g. the earth under it's control. s I wig Woltmann, 191SO
 oA "Our next war will be fought fo c- the highest interests of our countr = and or mankind. w OTlQ HOWer -f downfallr will be our rallying cry."- 1o General Bernhardi, 1911.) 10 Tt is only by relying on our goo
 German sword that we can hope re conquer that place in the sun whic of rightly belongs to us"-(Germa he Grown Prince, 1913.)
 e. With the help of Turkey, Indi D. and China may be conquered. Havir Iy conquered these, Germany shoul up civilize and Germanize the world, an ll- the German language would becon n. the world language. ge."-(Theodol O. Springman, 1915)
 H. With these statements of aims ma k be compared the recent utterances }. the Kaiser:
 he If the enemy does not want peac d. then we must bring peace to u Tn world by battering in with the <irc
 fist and shining sword the doors
 those who will not have peace."-
 (Dec. 22. 1917.)
 we desire to live in friendsh
 with neighboring peoples, but u
 victory of German arms must first
 recognized."-(Feb. II, 191S.) <. ''The prize of victory must not f; i9 us No soft peace, but one core ,t. bonding with Germany's interests" :"
 March 20. 191S.)