Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-10

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 offensive
 Interruptions Plotter.
 Publication of the 'Willy-Nickv"
 correspondence in 1917, placed the
 German Emperor in the light of an
 Hnscrupulous plotter. The telegrams
 disclosed that Emperor William had
 induced Emperor Nicholas of Russia
 to sign a secret agreement to which he was to force the adherence of Trance in the perfection of an offen-
 sive and defensive alliance against England. The treaty was discovered
 and repudiated by Russian minis ter.
 Failing in his attempt, the German Emperor set upon himself. the task Of drawing England to his side against France and Russia. How 1 well he thought he had succeeded
 in this may be gathered from let ! ter he wrote to President Wilson in 1 1914, in which he said King George
 had promised Prince Henry of Prus-
 sia. on July 29, 1914, that England
 would remain neutral in a war in-
 yolving the Central Powers with 1 France and Russia.
 Where Blame Belonged. 1 Perhaps the most direct and au- 1 thoritative of the accusations against ] the German Emperor and the Pan- l Germans are contained in the pub l lished secret memorandum of Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, who was German Ambassador at London at ] the outbreak of hostilities. The Prince
 unequivocally placed the blame for
 the war on Germany, and for his frarkness was imprisoned in a Sile- sian chateau, permanently expelled from the Prussian House of Lords, which action was sanctioned by the
 Emperor, and, finally, was expelled to Switzerland.
 CT German statesmen, diplomats and
 army was emphasized by Dr. Will helm Muehlon, a former director of the Krupp works, the great German munitions factory, in his book on ''The Devastation of Europe" In this he not only laid blame upon Ger many for bad faith and criticized the German army for it's brutality, but asserted that in the German Foreign Office "only he who did the Emper- OTIS bidding was allowed to remain They could not do better" he de- clared, because of the character, the power, the vaccillation of and con- tinued interference by the Kaiser" It was Dr. Muelhlon who asserted the authenticity of the statement that Emperor William stated at meet l ing of German army officers that he had plenty of prisoners and that he hoped the officers would see that no more nriSOnnrS were taken Wanted World Rule. MaXimilian Harden, German li- Eeral leader, declared the German ruler brought on the war because of 1 his desire flor something like world ruic"
 William often proclaimed his in- ] noence, and endeavored to put the l Onus of the war on the shoulders of the Entente Allies. In his speech from the throne after the war be- gan he said: "In pursuing it's interests the Russian Empire stepped in the way of Austria-Hungary. Our duty as an ally called us to the side of the Aus trian-H Hungary. The situation arose nOI from temporary conflicts of in- terests or, diplomatic combinations, but is the result of ill-will existing for years against the strength and prosperity of the German Empire" Vented His Anger! The Emperor, despite his previous expressions of good will for Ameri- ca gave gent to his anger against the United States when it became evil dent no official action would be talk en to stop the shipment of munitions and supplies to the Entente Allies by declaring to the American Am hassador, James w. Gerard, "I shall stand no nonsense from America af- ter the war" Williams designs to spread Ger ] man dominion in Asia found express sion in his famous visists to Con- stantinople when he was proclaimed l as protector of the Moslems. In this l the world saw cunning step toward achievement of the German ambition of German dominion from Berlin to Bagdad.
 Learned Arts Early.
 Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert
 was born January 27, 1859, and be- came Emperor William II on the
 death of his father, Frederick III,
 June IS, 1888. He came out of the
 University of Bonn fully prepared to
 enter the school of statescraft. Set
 to work in the government bureaus,
 he wss early taught the routine of official business under the tutelage
 of the great Bismarck.
 1 At the death of his father. the im-
 periol throne devolved upon William II who was then but twenty-nine
 years of age. Bismarck continued as
 Chancellor but not for long. Though
 the great statesman had made every 1 effort to instill his young pupil with his own ideas of government and di-
 plomatic policies, the new Emperor
 soon found that he disagreed with 1 his grandfather's former close ad-
 wiser in many important respects.
 In 1890 the disagreement of the two men reached a crisis, rupture came and Bismarck went. The relations
 between the two men remained