Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-06
KAISER TOLD IN 1914
THAT WAR WAS Lost
Speech Delivered by MAMMALIAN
Harden October "a Is, just
Made Public.
LIVED a LIFE OF LIES
Editors Accurate Information Flung
mt Audience Proved Most Scnsa-
tional Revelation, and Showed
How Public Had Been Deceived.

AMSTERDAM. December O.-"aIaj-
estty. the war Is lost"
the genera, staff of the German army.
made this declaration TO tho Kaiser
IN September. 1914, just aftcr the turn
Marnc, when the German lcgions were
stopped short by Jonrc at the gates
OF Paris and had begun their great
Macmillan Harden. the famous cd
itor OF Die Znkunft madc this reve-
burg on October - last. on the eve
Of the German .upheavai.
berns.orn told me-, said Herr iIar-
TO the very last moment of his stay
In Washington he had lied and lied
knowing that he was lying.
The Foreign ONCE told Bernstorf TO
say one thing and then proceeded TO
Only brief excerpts Of Hardens
speech were permitted 10 get out OF
Germany at the time. and the full; text
OF what he said is only now available
from German newspapers reaching
In opening. his address, Harden ex-
and peace
either" he. continued. lis that we make
ourselves free from traditions and pre-
conceived ideas that we look Into the
future with clear eyes and keen judS-
ment.. and that we mercilessly draw
the line between that which WAS ana
that which is.
buried. Events have hammered the
Tnai:Sa; h2 into all brains that It is
ffths of the worlds inhabitants
IT was a mistake which was bound
10 near bitter vengeance, to measure
wars and il will be new grave mis-
take to base upon those standards false
conceptions Of honor in connection with
Once, perhaps, there was n period
nie5 ms ss war , when vlctory In the an
s" ss s sSnten. bss' III Us by hairs
But the Marn io''' retreat. which
wrecked the plan OF overrunning
war. The thinking and clear
seeing Moltke at that time-in Sep
icnber. lali--went TO the Kaiser and
Majesty. the war is lost"
s, da nfeThortiIn,s this 5uncture of the
Wild cries OF Hear hear! and for
several minutes there was such rest
iessness and noise that the. speaker
had 20 wait Harden's accurate sources
- informa;ion always have been his
when he proved in court sensational
rsNelations of another nature. and
, ,mefe was not ono in that Hamburg
eyer. when he quoted Moltke's words.
the realization that they had been dc.
ceiHed In an unbelievable systematic
manner FOR four years seemed 10 break
upnn his hearers with crushing force.
w hen calm was restored Harden con-
t!nGed: Triumph had escaped us then
ana there al the Marine in September
i9li 5ut even IL triumph had been
ours 1t would have left US friendl~ss
ana joyless IN the world. But IL was
then that the first opportunity TO make
= sooh peace was missed. for the rea-
santic undertaking looked upon il al
ways through military. never through
pciiiicai eyes: because these pigmies
Ignored Blsmarck's most important
ana s!ncerest ainl-to secure the su.
itnry logic.
There was second opportunity for
a liquidation OF the war. and it, too.
was allowed TO pass by. That WAS in
the middle OF 1916. when many mill.
iary factors had been successfully
ing ns TO the ultimate goal
IL was then that the work Of Grand