New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-18

extensive scale, but was remaining
close at hand and keeping in COZ
slant touch"
Won Jagow's admissions.
And finally Herr Won Jagow, Ger
many's foreign minister at the out
break of the WAL in replying to Prince
LiChnoWsky's evidence, makes this
startling admission. among others: Il
by no means share the opinion preva-
lent among us today that England laid
all the mines for the outbreak of the
war; on the contrary, | believe in Sir
Edward C1rey's love Of peace and IN
his earnest wish to arrive at an agree
mcnt with MS " d Neither was the
war popular with the English people.
Belgium had to serve as battle
field" Won Jagow even admits that
war might have been aNerted by an
international conference on the Ser
bian situa ton. 1--WE could not agree"
he says, ito tho English proposal Of
a conference of am a ssa doris. for it
would doubtless have led to a serious
diplomatic defeat. For Italy. too, was
pro- Serb and, with her Balkan in
terests, stood rather opposed to Aus
tria'' That is to say, Won Jagow
admits that war was chosen by Ger
many as an alternative to an interna-
tional conference, which would have
declared the Austrian demands on
Serbia unjust even in the eyes Of Italy.
the ally Of Austria and of Germany.
How did these confessions come to
be made?
DR.. Mu1,lon's Conscience.
With DR.. Muhlon it was evidently
case of conscience. When tho war
began he resigned his position as
director of krupp's works, at Essen,
retired Krupp official living in Swift
land, near Berne. There he lived a
retired life. After u time reports
began to circulate of statements which
he had made to visitors. and he was
put under the surveillance Of spies
from the Germany embassy at Berne.
Later, members from the socialist
party in the Reichstag visited him.
and the German press reported that a
retired Krupp official living in Swift
zerland "Claimcd to be in possession
Of certain secrets seriously compronl1s-
ing the honor of the German govern
ment in the matter of the responsible
ity for the war" The newspapers be-
gan to hint that this official was out
were then published either as a yindl-
cation Of him or as an exposure which
should aid the democratic revolution
i'll Germany.
With Prince Lichnowsky it is a diff
ferent matter. He is a nobleman of
Semiroyal lineage, 1.-The sixth prince
of the princedom of Gratz in Austria
and Kuchelna in Prussia" His grand
father was one of Beethoven's patrons.
Beethoven wrote many of his works
in the LichnoWsky castle at Gatz.
where the piano that he used is still
preserved; and the present prince,
Karl Max Iichnowsky, has carried on
the tradition of culture and liberalism
which he inherited from his family.
He was a brother officer Of the present
Kaiser in the Life Guard Hussars of
Potsdan. but after brief army career
he entered the diplomatic service, and
held important posts in Stockholm,
bucharest. and vi
emma. He retired in 1904. being out
of sym pathy with the Junker atmos-
phere of tho court. He was not a
Prussian. nor even a German. His
family was Bohemian, and his mind
has never been militaristic.
To his great SURPRISE" as he says,
he was offered the post of German am
bassador to London in October, 1912,
after he had passed eight years
among fax aud turnips on horseback
and in my meadows" amusing his
leisure with reading and with writing
occasional political articles. Il do not
know" he says, "to whom my appoint
nent was due--at all events. not to
His Majesty, as 7 did not belong to
his immediate set, although he was
always gracious to me. T believe that
they agreed on me because no other
candidate was available
Lichnowsky Made scapegoat.
When, in spite of his efforts to pre-
vent it, England was involved in war
against Germany, he returned to Ber-
lin and saw, as he says. that he was
ito be made the scapegoat for the
catastrophe which our government
had brought down on us, despite my
advice and warning. 1t was delibe:-
ately given out from official quarters.
that l had let Sir Edward Grey hood
wink me- He retired to Gratz, smart
ing with this injustice, and there he
prepared a memoir, called my Mis-
sion In London" for the private In
formation of his kinsmen and his In
innate political friends.
OF this memoir he had five or six
typewriter copies made. One he sent
to Herr Balm, tho head of the Ham
burg American line; a second to Herr
Won Gwinner, the head of the Deutsche
bank; and q third to Herr Theodor
Wolff, editor of the Radical Dem ocra-
tic newspaper, the Berliner Tageblatt.
A fourth copy went TO a friend, an
officer attached to the political depart
ment of the German General staff.
This officer appears to have mani
folded it on his own responsibility and
sent copies to various state officials
and politicians. He did that, Herr
Theodor Wolff says, because che felt
the longing to serve the dictates Of
peace with complete devotion, and he
surrendered himself to a pacif1sn
which is absolutely incompatible with