Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02

1 moments reflection, as though he
had been turning over some figures
in his mind, mo. Davis, it will cost
| much more than that to get Belgium
back!"
1t occurred to me that If the
Kaiser really meant what he said on
that occasion, all his talk about
peace without annexation" was OBJ
viously a myth. and that the only
hope of Belgfums redemption lay
in the military defeat of Prussia.
Subsequent developments amply
confirmed that view.
In the winter of 1916, we were
talking of the sentiment in America
and the conversation turned to Won
| Bernstorff.
Won Bernstorff has been doing
very good work in your country"
the Kaiser commented.
We'll. your Majesty" I replied,
lit is said in America that If he had
not been such a clever diplomat he
swould long ago have been compelled
to leave"
From all I hear" the Kaiser
said, "he hasn't had a very easy
time of it. The American press as
a whole has been conspicuously
anti-German, although I understand
that one of your newspaper publish
ers has been friendly to us. Mr..
Hearst, for instance, has helped our
cause very much in your country.
He has been telling the truth about
affairs, which is more than most of
the other papers have been doing!"
Just before the King of Greece
abdicated, the Kaiser referred to the
attitude of the American press again.
| The way the American news
! papers and the press of the allied
! countries generally are presenting
| the Grecian situation to the world
; is absolutely false and a disgrace"
The declared bitterly. They are
| entirely misrepresenting the facts.
Mr.. Hearst is the only one, as far
as I can find, who has revealed the
real condition and told the truth
about them. My, wonder what
the people have to say now that Mr..
! Hearst has finally exposed the whole
thing" 1t was only short time
afterwards that the King abdicated
and revealed Enthusiastically which
papers had correctly interpreted the
trench of Grecian politics
In the course of one of our many
conversations on the subject of
| American munitions. the Kaiser
paid his respects to Mr.. Schwab.
What can one expect from
Schwab. who is using the Bethlehem
steel plant to work against us?" he
asked. HE is of Austrian Jew ex-
traction and would work against
any one for the sake of the money
| that's in it,"
What he is saying to-day against
the man who has worked such mira
cles as the head of our Shipping
Rnard ron waI1 he i'm q pina6f
Lloyd George is running Eng
land" he declared. HE is virtually
Socialist and is the agent and
spokesman of Lord Northcliffe, who
| is the real ruler of England to-day
How can the King of England sit
there and allow this sort of thing to
go on without asserting himself?
| Lloyd George makes a new speech
every week. One would think he
would run out of words. He thinks
he's a. second Cromwell!"
When Kerensky was very much
the hero of the hour in Russia and
II looked as though the collapse of
the Russian autocracy was not
going to help matters very much for
Germany, the Kaiser expressed his
opinion of that individual rather
emphatically
'Kerensky won't last long" he
said. Hes just making a fool of
himself. He thinks he's a second
Napoleon!"
I'm following affairs in America
very closely" he told me on an
other occasion. before we entered
the war. mot all of your senator's
are against us. Senator Stone. for
instance, is taking a very strong
neutral stand, I understand, and 1t
is pity there are not more like
him.
"welI, Davis" he said, "be care
full not to run against any mines or
be torpedoed. You'll probably be
pulled into England on your way
over. We understand all boats are
taken there for examination" Then.
with fire in his eye, he added 'Tf
YOU should see my cousin the King,
in England, kick him on the shins
for mel"