The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-13
Seven Months Before War Be-
gan First. Orders Given.
French Have an Astounding
Series of Papers.
TERRORISM FOLLOWED WAR
Agents Told To Cause Strikes
and Destroy Plants.
Money and Men Placed on Cor.
ruptiOn Duty.
TY HENRY WOOD.

with the French Armies in the
Field, March 16 (by maiD The
French have today in their possession
copies of an astounding series or mill
tarv and government orders showing
Carmanv's preparation for the present
war from January 2. 1914-seven
months before war actually was de-
clared-down to the kaiser's latest eff
forts to spread worldwide revolution
and anarchy.
man general staff knew war would be
forced in ls14 is given in an order ad-
dressed on January to the command
ers of all army regions. 1t reads;
within three days you Will tele-
graph the precise quantity, kinds ana
distribution of all military provisions
which you have intact and of all pri-
mary materials"
First Open Steps.
This was Germany's first step of
military preparation. Her first step
of financial preparation followed on
February IS. when the German minis
ter of finance, in agreement with the
Austro- Hungarian government, sent to
all the groups OF. German banks Sc
cret circular which read:
1.-THE directors of credit establish
ments are designated to establish,
with urgence, agencies In the folIoW-
ing places: Lulea (southern Sweden),
HaDaTanOa anu OIl LAC iiiidAiS
frontier, and at Bergen and Amster-
dam. The establishment of these
agencies is indispensable for the exer-
else of a more active surveillance OF
the material interests of German
stockholders in Russian, French and
English enterprises, and which may
become necessary in certain circum-
stances modifying the organization of
the financial and industrial market"
A Census of Material
On March 8, 1914, the German inn
perial staff began the census of the
rnateria, it might have at its disposal
for the war then in view, with the
aid of all inspectors of mines and fac
tories. Then, on June 8, came the
most indicative order of all. 1t read
as follows:
I "Twenty-four hours after the re-
ceipt of this circular, telegraph orders
to the proprietors of all industrial en-
terprises to open the sealed envelopes
containing the drawings and plans of
mobilization indicated in the circular
of the commission of Count Valdez
see and Count Caprivi of June 27,
1887"
When Brute Force Failed.
From the very moment it became
apparent that Germany could not win
the war by the sheer brute force of
her military supremacy, there began
sible. by the other German means of
sabotage, revolution, terrorism and
corruption.
On November 2, 1914, the German
general staff inaugurated this new
'prepa ration by sending a circular
to all of it's military agents on the
frontiers of Russia, France, Italy and
Norwey advising them that 'in all
the branches of German banks in
Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and the
United States special military credits
have been opened, destined for the
accessory needs of the war"
Destruction Proclaimed.
THE German general staff author
ICES you to have recourse in unlimited
proportions for the purpose of de-
stroying buildings. factories, supply
houses and the provisions of the more
important kind, both of military and
civil nature, belonging to the enemy"
the circular said.
while trying to bring about