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Baker. According to the katser's in
formation, however. we had only 10000
men in France at that time and he
was of the opinion that we would
never have many more.
America is having hne. time try
ing to raise an army" he declared
satirically. IT hear that 1000 mutt
MED the other day in New York and
refused to get on a transport. and a
town in the northwest composed prin-
clpally Of citizens Of Swedish blood re-
fused to register at all! We are get
ting excellent information about all
conditions in America"
Shortly before this had come the
revelations from Washington cf the
intrigue Of Count Won Luxburg. tile
German minister to Argentina. and I
knew where the kaiser was getting
the Information he referred to. In
nearly every case, 1t appeared. the
kaiser's informants were misleading
him.
Both before and after we entered
the war the kaiser was thoroughly
convinced that we could play only
nominal part In it so far as man
power was concerned and his assure
ance on that point undoubtedly ac-
counted for his decision to carry
through his submarine program even
though it resulted in bringing us into
the war.
DO you realize how many tons of
shipping it takes to ship a single SOL
dier?" he asked me on one occasion.
1 confessed my ignorance on that
point
well it takes six tons to the man!
To send over an army of 100000 men.
therefore, your country would require
100000 tons of shipping in addition
to the tonnage required Cor regular
traffic "hnra q II cnr1inf, from with
my submarines sinking the allied ves-
sells faster than they can ever be re-
placed? Ny U-boats are doing Won
derful work and we are prepared to
take care of all the troops America
may try to land in France"
q. s. Must Pay Costs, He Says.
How foolish for America to have
come into the war;" he went on. IF
she could succeed in landing real
army in France, what good would 1t
do? America can see now how easy
1t was for me to break through and to
capture 100000 Of the Italians, and
they must realize that l can break
through on the western front and do
the same thing there. II America had
kept out of the war she would have
gone on making untold profts, and
when peace was finally declared she
would have been in a most enviable
position among the nations OF the
world. AS it is. Wilson will never
have a seat at the peace table il I
can help 1t. and now America will
have to pay all the costs of the war"
Evidently he imagined that his tri-
umph would be SO complete that there
would be no peace table, but that the
warning nations would be compelled
to accept the terms he offered them.
in which event, knowing the magma
nimity of the German makeup. l
should say the world at large would
have to be content with very little.
How the kaiser feels. now that the
failure Of the U-boats to intercept
American troopships must be pain
fully apparent to him and America
has so overwhelmingly overcome the
shortage of shipping, 1 don't know,
but it is more than probable that for
some time to come the real situation
will, at any rate, be successfully con-
cea1ed from the German people. 1
campaign was unknown to the Ger
mans up to the time / left Berlin-in
January, 1918.
Losses of U-boats were never accu-
rately announced, while the destruc-
tion of allied vessels was always re-
ported in terms of carrying capacity
rather than in the displacement of
the vessels. which was one of the
factors accounting for the discrep-
ancy between the German estimates
of our shipping losses and our own
figures, and which disposes of the
charge that the allied naval authori-
ties concealed the true extent of our
at the hands of the
U-boats