The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-07-19
GERMANY CONDEMNED
BY A GERMAN
ONE PROMINENT MAN WHO LEFT
THERER TO AVOID PART IN
THE RosBER WAR.
BY 3. r. kospoth.


| just a few scattered houses among
pleasant wooded hills. with low gray
chateau hidden in high walled park
| In this aristocratic country mansion
far removed from the maddening ru-.
mors OF war dwells perhaps the most
interesting figure among the German
political exiles now In Switzerland
Herr Wilhelm Muehlon. the former di-
rector OF the Krupp works at Essen
whose revelations fixing the sole re-
sponsibility for the outbreak OF the
world conflagration on the Kaiser and
his Ministers recently caused almost
as great sensation as Prince Llch-
nowsxy's damning evidence against the
Berlin Government
Rulers Feel Weight.
II is indeed a paradox most painful
| ~ felt by the rulers Of Germany that
one OF the bitterest and most convinc-
ing accusations ever formulated
against their criminal war policy
should come from a man who for many
years belonged 10 the Board. OF Direc-
tors at Krupps. that vast commercial
incarnation OF the Teutons lust for
blood and domination. whose operation
was ever shrouded in the deepest mys-
terry and jealousy hidden from foreign
eyes lest they detect the secret perpa
| rations OF the enormous crime Ger
| many was planning TO commit against
the liberties OF the world.
| ! have been told by well-infoTIned
Germans here, and am altogether in
clined TO believe them. that Herr Mu-
ehlon's sensational detection has reused
| the Kaiser to greater pitch OF fury
| even than Prince Lichnowskys rev.
| Citations. and that the German Govern
ment fears the former Krupp Director
| IN Switzerland more than the former
| Ambassador to the Court of st. James
whom IL has at least in its power in
Germany
The German legation at Berne re-
Gently sent Herr Muehlon, who is still
OF military age a preemptory order to
report at Loerrach. the German from
| tier station. and join the colors, but he
| refused TO obey this somewhat naive
| command, knowing that preventive
| Imprisonment was in store for him the
| instant he crossed the border He has
remained quietly in the handsome old
| chateau he purchased upon first com
ing to free Switzerland. for. unlike 9th
| er fuRitives from the Kaiser's tyranny
he managed to bring the greater part
| Of his considerable fortune with him
and can face future developments
with the tranquil assurance of a mill
| lionaire
Owner Bowed Down.
| The old chateau breathed an atmos-
/ phere of rural repose and almost ego
| tistic isolation from the tragedy OF
Y 7 81. -
/ yet at the very moment, the destinies
/ OF the world were once more I'm sus-
pense on the battlefields OF France.
and found its owner fairly bowed
i down with the fatsfuI burden of the
| hour. You find me in a state OF deep
| depression. said this extraordinary
man, who sacrificed the powerful
| friendship OF Krupp-von BehIen to his
political ideals and resigned from the
/ greatest war corporation in Prussia to
combat Prussisn militarism- ! can tell
| you nothing about the political situa-
ton in Germany. There is no political
situation in Germany so long as this
offensive lasts. The entire German
/ people is once more hypnotized as it
was in 1914, by brutal dreams OF con-
| quest and financial gain. The Kais-
/ er's words have come true. There are
no parties in Germany today From
the Junkers TO the Socialists all are
sunk in the depths OF an almost in
human materialism and calculating
| that the battles in France will bring
| them peace with world domination and
fabulous indemnities-
Were Duped Once.
/ Perhaps there was a time when the
| Germans were duped by the lies in
vented by their leaders and really be-
| lieved they were carrying on a war OF
/ defense After the collapse of Russia
which more than doubled Germany's
| military strength in the west. this fic-
ton could no longer be upheld, not ev-
| EN- by such an astute and INSCRIPTIONS
i statesman as Count Hertling. A GER
| tain amount of popular opposition
against the continuation of the war be-
i came apparent in Germany after the
/ conclusion OF peace with Russia and
/ Roumania: IL eliminated in the recent
/ great strike movement. But the Prus-
sian military leaders and their poll
teal accomplices have not only trium-
/ phantly overcome this opposition
| against a new debauoh of blood and
/ brutality TO arbitrary measures, but
have succeeded in corrupting the en-
| tire German people by assurances of
a smashing victory and the promise OF
a speedy peace with anexatons and
/ vast indemnities. introducing an era
or unprecedented prosperity and high
| living for all classes of society in Ger
many after the terrible privatioSis
and misery of the war.
| And the Germans, drowning all
doubts and pangs on conscience which
years of disappointments and suffer-
ing have finally awakened within them
the brutal expectation of overwhelm-
ing their opponents by sheer force OF
numbers have followed Ludendorffs
lead like herd OF rapacious slaves
and gone forth once more to Stay and
devastate, driven by the lust OF power
and gain. II is this that makes US de-
spair OF the German people.
Speaks From Knowledge.
No Englishman or Frenchman have
! ever known to arraign German more
mercilessly than this German. who was
once Krupp- Won Bohlen't right-hand
man. And yet, chatting with him in
his artistically furnished library, dec
Grated with paintings by famous mod
ern artists, while the fate of Europe
hung in the balance on the battlefields
of France. | felt that he must be right