Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-28


many is engaged in war for world
domination was frankly admitted
at the annual meeting in Berlin on
Feb. Is of the Bunk Der Land
.prising the large landholders of
Germany. The junker speakers.
according to German newspapers
received here, denounced the reich
stag majority resolution against
annexations and the policy of for
mer Chancellor Won Bethmann
Hollweg. Socialists and others Who
are attacking Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg and General Won Lud-
endorff were attacked bitterly.
1t was admitted that the continu-
alton of the war was attended with
great difficulties and that the un-
favorable food supply situation had
converted many monarchists into
socialists.
A violent attack upon democracy
was made by DR.. Wildgrube, a
member of the reichstag, who said
there was no c4nciliation between
democracy and imperialism.
Germany will be either mon
archial or nop-monarcial," he said.
we passionately appeal to our en-
peror:
Hold what you save so that no
body may take your crown"
Chamberlain Won Oldenburg
made this statement:
This war is a flight for world
domination and difficult as it's con-
tinuation may be, it must be fought
out until victory has been achieved,
if we do not want to SOW the death
germ for our fatherland."
Il hope that after the war" he
said, Eve will be strong enough to
maintain peace. To that end we
need different frontiers and a large
measure of independence. Only fools
believe in an eternal peace of the
nations. AS long as the army is
fighting everything is all right, but
what will happen thereafter and
how we will get out of it, only God
knows"
The speaker predicted that Ger
maRy's chancellor after the war
would have difficulty in keeping
within bounds the spread of de-
mocracy.
London, March 2S-The personal
memorandum of Prince Lichnow-
sky, revealing the inner workings
of Germany diplomacy, which has
caused much feeling in Germany
against the former ambassador to
81 raat Britain, leGlsadF outslast sum
mer through the German general
staff after the fall of Chancellor
Won Bethmann Hollweg. This state
ment is made by the Socialist Vor-
waerts of Berlin, and is published
by the Times which also reprints
from the Vorwaerts the most i'm
portant points of the memoran-
dunn. In an editorial on the dis
closures of the prince the Times
says:
by a coincidence as strange as
it is opportune, passages of the
memorandum in which the former
German ambassador fixes the guilt
for the war upon his own govern
ment. reach us as the fiercest and
bloodiest conflict of the long strug-
gle is at its height.
'He has not a shadow of doubt
about the responsibility for the
war. Without hesitation he fast
ems it upon Germany. The German
militarists were inexorable. They
would not suffer Count Berchtold
to give way. When he fiinched
from plunging Europe into war
they forced his hand.
They delivered an ultimatum to
Russia and the next day declared
war upon her although the Russian
emperor had pledged his word that
while the negotiations continued
not a Russian should march.
I'VE deliberately destroyed the
possibility of peaceful settlement
is the former ambassador consid-
cred judgment He cannot feel
surprised that the whole civilized
world outside Germany attributes
to us sole guilt for the world war
The whole story which he records
corroborates this judgment and
cannot be reconciled with any
other"
THE first hint of coming trouble
which reached him seems to have
been Won Bethmann Hollweg's re-
fusal to share his optimism when
he visited Wilhelmstrasse early in
July, 1914. The chancellor and the
under secretary for foreign affairs
complained of Russian armament
and the latter declared that Rus
sia was everywhere in Germany's
way. At the same time he learned
that Won Tchersky, the German
ambassador at Vienna, had been re-
buked because he had Counselled
moderation towards Serbia.