The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-11
Cermany's Crime Against Civilization..-
Confesses Crime Through Her Former
Ambassador to England, Lichnowsky

at hand and keeping in constant
touch"
Won Jagow's Admissions.
And finally Herr Won Jagow, Ger
many's foreign minister at the out
break of the war. in replying to Prince
Lichnowsky's evidence, makes this
startling admission. among others Il
by no means share the opinion pre-
valent among us today that England
laid all the mines for the outbreak
OF the war; on the contrary, l believe
in Sir Edward Grey's love of peace
and in his earnest wish to arrive at
an agreement with us. Neither
was the war popular with the English
people. Belgium had to serve as
battle field Won Jagow even admits
that war might have been averted by
an international conference on the
Serbian situation. 1--WE could not
agree he says, ito the English pro-
posal of a conference of ambassadors,
for it would doubtless have led to
serious diplomatic defeat For Italy,
too, was pro-Serb, and, with her Bal
kan interests stood rather opposed to
Austria" That is to say, Won Jagow
admits that war was chosen by Ger
many as an alternative to an internal
tional conference, which would have
declared the Austrian demands on Ser
bia unjust even in the eyes of Italy,
the ally of Austria and of Germany
How did these confessions come to
be made?
Dr.. MuhIon's Conscience.
With DR.. Muhlon it was evidently a
case of conscience. When the war
began he resigned his position as a
director of Krupp's works, at Essen
land retired to his estate in Switzer-
land, near Berne. There he lived a
retired life. After time reports be-
gan to circulate of statements which
he had made to visitors, and he was
put under the surveillance of spies
from the German embassy at Berne
Later, members from the socialist
party in the reichstag visited him, and
the German press reported that a re-
tired Krupp official living in Switzer-
land claimed to he in possession of
certain secrets seriously compromising
the honor of the German government
in the matter of the responsibility for
I no IA
hint that this official was out of his
mind. DR.. Muhlon's statements We're
then published either as a vindication
Of him or as an exposure which should
aid the democratic revolution in Ger
many.
With Prince Litchnowsky it is a
different matter He is a nobleman
of semiroyal lineage, "the sixth prince
of the princedom of Gratz in Austria
and Kuchelna in Prussia" His grand
father was one of Beethoven's patrons.
Beethoven wrote many of his works
| in the Lichnowsky castle at Gratz,
where the piano that he used is still
preserved; and the present prince
Karl Max Lichnowsky has carried on
the tradition of culture and liberalism
which he inherited from his family
He was a brother officer of the present
kaiser in the Life Guard Hussars OF
Potsdam, but after brief army career
he entered the diplomatic service, ant
held important posts in Stockholm
Constantinople Bucharest, and Vienna
He retired in 1904, being out of sym.
patty with the Junker atmosphere o.
the court. He was not a Prussian
nor even a German. His family was
Bohemian, and his mind has never
been militaristic.
To his great surprise" as he says
he was offered the post of German
ambassador to London in October, 1912
after he had passed eight year!
among flax and turnips, on horseback
and in my meadows" amusing hi
leisure with reading and with writing
occasional political articles. 81 do no
know" he says. "to whom my appoint
ment was due-at all events, not t.
his majesty, as / did not belong to hi
immediate set although he was Away
gracious to me. l believe that the.
agreed on me because no other can
didate was available"
Lichnowsky Made Scapegoat.
When, in spite of his efforts to pre-
vent it, England was involved in wa
against Germany, he returned to Der
in and saw, as he says, that he wa
"to be made the scapegoat for the ca
tastrophe which our government ha
brought down on us, despite my ad
vice and warning. 1t was deliberatel
| given out, from official quarters, tina
l had let Sir Edward Grey hoodwin
, me-" He retired to Gratz, smartin
, with this injustice, and there he pre-
. pared memoir, called "My Missio
in London" for the private informatio
of his kinsmen and his intimate poll
f tical friends.
v Of this memoir he had five or 81
e typewriter copies made. One he ser
= to Herr Balm, the head of the Han
burg American line, second to Hell
e Gwinner the head Of the Deutscf
e bank; and third to Herr Theodt
= Wolff, editor of the Radical-Demt