Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-07-10

hithorto .eAandretta. Bagdad hat
- .a constituted the terminal notn
ua,, ene road. An international com
49," was to attend to the naviea
had a on the Shatt-el-Arab. We Ala
ot pa snare In the harbor constructio,
nen n.asta, and obtained rights in tn.
hi Httktsatlon OF the Tigris which hai
~ Deen a monopoly of the firm
~ EEyncn. Under this treaty the whole
49, ~esopotam1a as far as Basra camf
49, ou5 sphere of interest in so far as
- u1d not encroach upon prior Rrit
.sn rights, as in the case of the Tipri.
nav1eatlon and the Wilcox IRRIGATION ~
Rtaue, ana the whole TERRITORY of the
o"soau q Anatolian Railroad"
British Not Jealous,
Inc English felt "uncomfortah,o ,
fr1nce Lichnowsky SAYS. about ~
great increases in the German ae ene
ne admits, however. that "EnoieoJ
so1o,,. ~ more nave drawn the sword
s socn;,, on account of our navy than on
snnnon VI our commerce, which is
oag 10 nave aroused her envy
% hnu III Inc END brought the war to q
neau: The talk of English
S commercial jealousy, of which one
uears so much among us, is based
upon: wrong Judgment of conditions
uermanys rise as commercial power
atter tne war of the seventies and in
tue Io1oW1ng decades was certainly a
menace to British commerce. whose
industries and export houses enioved
sort OF monopoly. But the 1ncreas.
lug trade with Germany, which ranked
as hng!and's best customer, made if
desirable for England to remain on
sooa terms with her best customer and
business friends, and gradually sun.
Rianteo all other considerations. The
btlton IS matter of fact; he reconeiles
nAluse1l 10 facts and does not tilt
against W1ndmills. It was precisely
IN commercial circles that I met with
tne most friendly reception and oh.
served an effort to promote economic
interests common to both countries.
l became convinced soon
after my arrival Gin England) that
we did not in the least have to fear
an English attack or English support
OF foreign attack, but that ENGLAND
under all circumstances would protect
france. never ceased Tn
point out that as a commercial nation
england would suffer enormously in
any war between the great European
powers, and would therefore seek bv
every means to prevent it, but that in
the interest of the European balance
OF power and in order to prevent a Dre.
pOnderance of German power she
would not tolerate the weakening or
destruction OF France. Lord Haldane
nad told me this soon after my arrival.
Every person in authority expressed
himself to the same effect"
Late in June of the fatal summer of
1914, Prince Lichnowsky was sum
moned to Kiel by the Kaiser, and he
was on board the imperial yacht Me.
teor, when word was received of the
murder of the Austrian Archduke,
Being unacquainted with the Vienna
viewpoint and what was going on
there he says, Il attached no very
tar-reaching significance to the event;
but, looking back, I could feel sure
that in the Austrian aristocracy a feel.
ing of relief outweighed all others. I"
AS for the Kaiser, His Majesty re.
GREETED that his efforts to win over the
Archduke to his ideas had been thus
frustrated" by the Archduke's assas.
sination.
Lichnowsky went on to Berlin and
saw the Chancellor, Won Bethman-
Hollweg. Il told him that l regarded
our foreign situation as very satisfac-
| tory as 1t was long time indeed since
we had stood so well with England,
And in France there was q pacifist
cabinet Herr Won Bethmann-Hollweg
ala not seem to share my optimism.
He complained Of the Russian arma.
ments. l tried to tranquilize him with
the argument that it was not to Rus.
| sla's interest to attack us, and that
| such an attack would never have Eng
fish or French support, as both coun-
tries wanted peace.
II went from him to DR.. thinner.
mann the under Secretary, who was
acting for Herr Won Jagow (the For.
| eign Secretary and learned from him
that Russia was about to call up nine
hundred thousand new troops. His
words Enthusiastically denoted ill humo1
against Russia, who he said stood
everywhere in our way. In addition
there were questions of commercial
policy that had to be settled. That
General Won Moltke was urging wal
was, Of course, not told to me.
learned, however, that Herr von
Tschirschky (the German Ambassador
in Vienna) had been reproved because
he said that he had advised Vienna tC
show moderation toward Serbia"
Prince Lichnowsky went to his sum
mer home in Silesia, quite unaware Of
the impending crisis. when l re
turned from Silesia on my way tt
London" he says, Il stopped only &
few hours in Berlin, where I hearC
that Austria intended to proceed
against Serbia so as to bring to al
end an unbearable state of affairs
Unfortunately l failed at the momen
to guage the significance of the news
I thought that once more it would
come to nothing; that even if Russi:
acted threateningly, the matter coul(
soon be settled. l now regret that
did not stay in Berlin and declare
there and then that I would have n,
hand in such policy"
And here he interpolates some mos
significant sentences. The world ha
heard various reports of meeting II
Potsdam, as early as July 5, between
the German and Austrian authorities
at which meeting war was decided or
Prince Lichnowsky says: II learne'
afterwards that at the decisive discus
sion at Potsdam on July 5th the Aus
trian demand had met with the uncor
, ditional approval of all the parsonage
in authority; it was even added tina
no harm would be done if war wit
Russia did come out of it. It was g.
stated at least in the Austrian repor
, received at London by Count Mems
} dorff (the Austrian Ambassador t.
England)."
He continues: AT this point l re
ceived instructions to endeavor t