The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02

FOR GREAT WAR
TOLD in DIARY
Revelations of a Krupp
Director Who Became
Disguised With the
Policy of the Kaiser.

BERNIE, Switzerland. Except
the Lichnowsky revelations there
have been no such interesting and
important statements concerning the
responsibility for war as those con-
tanned in a volume by DR.. Wilhelm
Muehlon, formerly director of
Krupp's works at Essen. DR.. Nue.
hlon is now in Switzerland, where
he has bought good deal of land
and an old country house near Berne,
and settled there with his family.
Recently in the German reichstag it
was stated that DR.. Muehlon is men,
tally unbalanced. Nevertheless, he
was called up for military service
only a few weeks ago, in the hope
that he would then cross the Swiss
frontier into Germany in order to be
examined, when, of course, an end
could have been made to him. DR..
Muehlon, however, has thought best
to remain in Switzerland, altho by
so doing he constitutes himself de-
serter, and altho the position Of de-
serters in Switzerland at present is
not altogether a pleasant one.
Mentally unbalanced" Yet it is
not so long since the firm of Krupp,
which presumably would hardly have
attained such Importance if it had
had mentally unbalanced men as its
directors, was paying DR.. Muehlon an
annual salary of 100000 marks
($50,000D, besides which he received
certain percentages which consider
ably augmented his income.
Moreover, when DR.. Muehlon sent
in his resignation as director Of
Krupp, the other members Of the
board of directors approached him
with an offer to make him chairman
if only he would remain. Again,
there are number of Swiss in good
positions, some of them personally
known to me, who have had dealings
with DR.. Muehlon, and are certainly
thoroly we'll able to detect any signs
of lack of mental balance or "ner-
vousness"; and they one and all
laugh to scorn the notion of DR.. Meu-
HONS being anything but thoroly
normal. On the contrary, they all
agree indescribing him as exception
ally shreWd and clear-headed, and,
what is more, they assert that he is
thoroly patriotic German, one who
yearns to see his country released
from its present rulers. In the face
of so much concurrent testimony, it
is useless for the Potsdam plotters
to pretend that DR.. Muehlon, who
happens to have written what is dis
agreeable to them, is mentally I'M
balanced, nervous, or anything else
abnormal
A Day-to-Day Record
l am able to state that DR.. Nue.
hlon did not intend to publish his
diary until these abominable lying
statements were made about him in
the German reichstag, and now,
when everyone reads this diary,
which will be published at the end
of this month or the beginning of
July by Orell Fussli, of Zurich, the
world in general will be able to
laugh to scorn the notion of ment-
ally unbalanced man having so clear,
direct, and logical a style.
After giving general account
written in the first day of August,
1914" Of how the war came about,
DR.. Muehlon begins his day-to-day
record, the first entry in which is
dated August 4, 1914. The book
will contain only about 100 pages,
which l have been privileged to see
in proof, but I have only had time
to read the diary up to September