Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-12
Chronology of Abdicated Ruler
. of German Empire One Of
Most Remarkable Series of
Ambitious Vaccinations

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Ambitious Vaccinations
A dream of world dominion obsessins
the mind OF Emperor William, whose
abdication has been announces: piu ND
ed the world into war. upon MN anu
the tremendous military engine OF ue
structiou OF which he was the empoul-
lnent, the exponent and the leader, rests
the responsibility of deliberately piau.
ming and bringing about the gFedIeSl
conflict the world has ever seen.
1t did not matter 10 the world that
the emperor's personal share i'll the
swift events Immediately preceding the
war had been obscured. The world con,
vtcted him of organizing, directing and
maintaining at the top notch OF Ell
cheney the great German military Iio
chine. 1t remembered that he signeo
the order for the German moDiHZatloIl.
II remembered that he stood sponsor
for the terrorism and brigandage which,
under the guise of warfare raNlsheu
Belgium, laid waste the cities OF rance,
depopulated and outraged Serbia anu
sa1t the I,usitania with her freight OF
women and children to a grave IN Ihe
civilization will never forget that Il
was the minions of the emperor VINO
officiaIlv shot to death Edith CaveIlr
the English girl VINO pelrlehueu inc
Belgians in Brussels. IL,
Against these his cry, Il did not VIII
the war availed as nothlng. bet SSId tad
guilty of the greatest crime since tne
crucifixion. In him humanity saw the
last of the autocrats, the final caesar
Assertions that he was at heart peace
mi co nersistentIy circulated for years
as to give them the stamp Oh German
propaganda, became BRANDED as GER
fainlv false He who had long proclaim
ed himself the prince oil peace stoodd
nitU'E SCOurRe. anu
against him and all that he reprcsenteS
rose the new world of democracy ana
freedom. -.,.
MANY doubt whether William is en-
tireIy sane. He said repeatedly that re
Dossessed a divine mandate to rule, that
the Almighty was his unconditional
and avowed ally 1t is not entirely
clear whether such outgiving1 were the
nroduct of a disordered brain or were
due to unbounded egotism and an etIort
to impress his subjects with the luea
of reyerent and unquestioning SuomlS-
sion His speeches to his armies in
which he asserted he and they were IN
struments of divine judgment upon Ger
many's enemies" were regarded py many
outside of Germany as pieces or rhel-
oric, intended only to deceive MS OWN
Williams claim to close affinity with
Cod was the burden of dozens or ms
speeches long before as well as after the
haps. none more clearly defined ms
claim than his notorious I'll
vine right" speech delivered at Bran
denburg in 1890. in which he SAID nc
regarded the German people as a re-
sponsibility" conferred upon him by
God and that il was my duty to IN.
crease this heritage for which one DAY
i shall be called upon to give account,
Those who try to interfere with my
task 1 shall crush"
In all this tine world saw before the
war not a menace but a COMEDY. ~
laughed with the then Captain Joseph
e Coghlan. of the United States navy
when, returning from the war with SPAIN
and telling of the clash with the COM
mander of the German squsdron az Ma
Mia bay. the captain reclted tne saIi1 ttIs
concluding refrain was, in supposlutous
words of the emperor:
"Gott pulls nit me-and nit MIN
Meinself-Und Gott."
Many Statesmen Pooled
Few statesmen realized then that the
deluded emperor in his shining armor
maneuVering his armies and his IleetS
building up the German military system
cementing the central empires and Tur.
key and fostering the preaching OF
the supremacy of autocracy was erect
ing a machine that one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Yet the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the emperor would
one day bring catastrophe upon the ma.
tions. These men saw in him then ana
see him now as mad inventor given
in his youth the most dangerous of all
toys-his army and navy.
They were his playthings. He develop
ed them throughout the years to the
point where he had to put them 10 3
test Like Il crazed inventor, he feared
the end of his reign would find his IN.
ventions untried; so grasped the first
opportunity to wage a world war.
Meantime the German war party grew
with William as its head, and the scheme
of world dominion awaited the hour &c
begin its attainment. 1t came with the
/ ASA ssination of the Austrian Archduke
Francis Ferdinand. and his wife, at Sa'
Taievo.
Recalled from a yachting trip. William
presided at a conference at Potsdam OF
representatives of the German and Aus
trian armies, navies and commercial IN.
tercsts. There according to the best
information obtainable, the decision was
| reached to make the assassination of the
7rchduke a pretense for the world wal
for which Germany had long prepared
DIselaimed Responsibility
In the diplomatic exchanges between
Germany and Austria on one side anc
! Great Britain, France and Russia or
the other, William posed as one wishing
| for peace. but driven to war. He sign
ed the order for the mobilization of the
German army and from that moment
on his armies relentlessly in the mad
campaigns for victory. encouraging them
with every device and sometimes APP
pea ring on the front to be proclaimed as
| personal commander in great offensive
| Publication of the "Willy-Nicky'' cor
respondence in 1917. placed the Ger
man emperor in the light of an un
scrupulous plotter. The kilograms dis
closed that Emperor William had in
duced Emperor Nicholas of Russia, II
sign a secret agreement TO which hi
was to force the adherence of Francs
| I'm the perfection of an offensive ana de
| fensive alliance against England. The
treaty was discovered and repudiatet
| by Russian minister.
Failing in his attempt. the German
| en1DS-nr ct upcn himself she task ~
| ira win ENGLAND to his side against
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