Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-09
DREAM OF WORLD
DOMINION BROKEN
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side and Great Britain, France and
PussiD on the other William posed
as one wishing for peace but driven 10
war lie signed the order Tor ths
mobilization of the German army ana
from that moment war was ineVltaDle
Thereafter he drove on his armies
relentlessly in the mad campaigns Tor
victory, encouraging them with every
device and sometimes appeaIl,S Oh
the front to be proclaimed as. personal
commander in a great offensive.
Publication of the Willy-Nicky
correspondence in 1917 paced the
unscrupuious plotter. The kilograms
DISCLOSED that Emperor Wllnam had
induced Empeor Nicholas OF RUSSIA
to sign a secret agreement 10 Whlcn
France in the perfection of an ohen-
sive and defensive alliance against
England The treaty was discovered
and 1epudiated by "a Russian minis
ter.
Fails to Lure England
Failing in his attempt, the German
Emperor set upon himself, the task
of drawing England to his SIDE
against France and Russia. How
we'll he though he had succeeded in
this may be gathered from a letter
he wrote to President Wilson in 1914
in which he said King George had
promised Prince Henry of Prussia;
on July 90. 1914 that England would
the Central Powers With France and
Russia.
Perhaps the most direct and au-
thoritative of the accusations against
the German Emperor and the Pan
Germans are contained in the pub
iished secret memorandum of Prince
Charles Max Lichnowsky, who was
German Ambassador at London at
the outbreak of hostilities. The
Prince unequivocally placed the
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for his frankness was imprisoned
| in a Silesian chateau, permanently
expelled from the Prussian House of
Lords, which action was sanctioned
| by the Emperor, and, finally, was
| eXiled to Switzerland.
None But ScrvitOrS admitted
Emperor Williams domination over
German statesmen, diplomats and the
| high command of the German army
was emphasized by DR.. Wilhelm
Muehlon, a former director of the
Krupp works the great German mu-
nitions factory in his book on The
| Devastation of Europe In this he
not only laid blame upon Germany
for bad faith and criticised the Ger
man army for it's brutality but as
serted that in the German Foreign
Office only he who did the Emperor $
| bidding was allowed to remain. They
could not do better" he declared,
because of the character, the power,
the vacillation of and continued in
reference by the Kaiser" 1t was
| DR.. Muehlon' who asserted the au-
thenticity of the statement that
Emperor william stated at meeting
of German army officers that he had
plenty of prisoners and that he hop
ed the officers would see that no more
prisoners were taken.
MaXimilian Harden, a German lib
eral leader, declared the German ruler
brought on the war because of his
desire for something like world
William often proclaimed his inno-
cence, and endeavored to put the
onus of the war on the shoulders OF
the entente Allies In his speech
from the throne after the war began
I'm pursuing it's interests the Rus
sian Empire stepped in the way of
Austria Hungary. Our duty as. an
tria- Hungary. The situation arose
not 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"
The Emperor, despite his previous
expressions of good VIII for America
gave vent to his anger against the
United States when il became evident
no official action would be taken to
stop the shipment of munitions and
supplies to the entente Allies by de-
claring to the American Ambassador,
nonsense from america after the
war"
Williams designs to spread German
dominion in Asia found expression in
his famous visits to Constantinople
when he was proclaimed as protec-
tor of the Moslems In this the world
saw cunning step toward achieve
ment of the German ambition of
German dominion from Berlin to Bag
dad.
became Emperor In 1883
Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert
was born January y. 1853, and be-
came Emperor William II on the
June Is, 1883. He CAME out of the
University of Bonn fully prepared to
enter the school of statecraft. Set
to work in the government bureaus,
he was early taught the routine Of
official business under the tutelage
At the death of his father, the i'm
perial throne developed upon William
II who was then but twenty nine
years of age. Bismark continued as
Chancellor but not for long. Though
the great statesman had made every
his, own, ideas of government and
diplomatic policies, the new Emperor
soon found that he disagreed with
his grandfather's former close adviser
in many important respects. In
1890 the disagreement of the two
men reached crisis, rupture came
and Bismark went. The relations
between the two men 'remained
strained for several years. but be-
fore Bismark died peace was made be-
tween them.
with the. passing of Bismark the
Emperor's real reign began. As
military man he was a stickler for
efficiency disciDiine and tho oh.ar,,-