The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-06
EDITOR HARDEN
SAYS HUN ENVOY
LIED TO WILSON
German Publisher Declares Bern.
storff Was in Turn De-
Ceived by Berlin.
MOLTKE FOR PEACE IN "A
Kaiser Also Should Have Sued In
1916, When Ruthless Undersea
Warfare Was Launched
Only Brief Excerpts OF
Speeches Sent Out.

0RCSCuSo SCuI WV
Amsterdam. Dec. 6.-Helmuth Won
Moltke then chief of the general staff
of the German army, told the kaiser
that Germany had lost the war In
September, 1914, just after the turn
ing point in the first battle Of the
Marne.
Macmillan Harden, the famous ed
itor Of Die Zukunft, made this revela-
tion in q speech at Hamburg October
27 last, on the eve of the German up
heaval.
"Bernstorff told me-" said Harden.
that at the last moment OF his stay
in Washington he had lied and lied
and lied to President Wilson-without
knowing that he was lying. The for
ei9n office told Bernstorff to say one
thing and then proceeded to do the
other"
Censor Hides Truth.
Only brief excerpts of Harden's
speech were permitted to get out of
Germany at the time, and the full
text Of what he said is only now avail
able from German newspapers reach
ing here.
In opening his address, Harden ex-
pressed the hope that the dying days
Of the year would bring an armistice
and peace.
Events" he added, have ham,
mered the realization into all brains
%ha& 3c TO yonn,1iSh fhrna
or four-fifths of the worlds inhabi-
tants.
''Once, perhaps, there was a period
when victory in the ancient sense
slipped past us by hairs breadth
In September, 1914.
"But the Marne retreat, which
wrecked the plan of overrunning
France, gave a different turn to the
war.
"The War Is Lost"
1.-THE clear-thinking and clear-see-
ing Meltke at that time-in Septem-
Der, 1914-went to the kaiser and
said:
"'Your majesty, the war is lost ,"
In reporting this juncture of the
speech the Hamburg papers describe
the great audience as being seized by
tremendous emotion. There were
wild cries Of "Hear, hear! and for
several minutes there was such rest
lessness and noise that the speaker
had to wait.
When calm was restored, Harden
continued:
Triumph had escaped us then and
there. But even If triumph had been
ours it would have left US friendless
and joyless in the world. But it was
then that the first opportunity to
make a good peace was missed.
"There was a second opportunity
for liquidation of the war, and it,
too, was allowed to pass by. That
was In the middle Of 1916. when many
military forces had been successfully
brought into play by us without bring
ing us to the ultimate goal.
"It was then that the work OF
Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz began to
take the center Of the stage. The
controversy about U-boat warfare set
in"
Asks Trial for Accused.
"His aids and abettors were Herr
Zimmerman, secretary Of state, 9th
erwise without Ill repute, and Helf-
ferfch-God only knows how such men
came to such offices.
81 hope and wish that these three
men will be brought to trial before a
high tribunal (Stormy applause
Characteristic for the whole conduct
Of the war is-as / am in a position to
prove-the mathematical activity OF
certain statistician who in a per
sonal report to the kaiser demon
strated' that England was absolutely
bound to sue for peace within very
short time thereafter. And this gen
tleman concluded his sanguine state
ments with the remark:
"'And please God, your majesty
will then reject England's petition fol-
peacep Instead of striving for an un
derstanding with America, situated as
we were in a strong military defensive
position, we drove that hemisphere
into hostility against us.
"Bernstorff is homeward bound be
cause he does not wish to witness thu
entry of the British in COnstantinople
The Dardanelles already are officially
closed.
UphoIds Wilson.
''It is in connection with our isolc
ton that we have to consider the ex
change with President Wilson. A gi
gantic world arbiter's task has beer
placed In his hands and strong infu