New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
Muehlon Shows
German Greed
For Territory
Former Krupp Head Wrote
PRUSSIA Will Steal
All She CAM
Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc)

WASHINGTON, June 3.--The new
revelations of DR.. Muehlon, formerly
head of the Krupp works in Germany,
contain fresh evidence of the guilt of
Germany in starting the war and show
that militarists in Germany desired to
annex all the territory between Calais
and Marseilles, according to an official
French dispatch received here to-day.
In notes written by DR.. Muehlon in
1914, after conversations with distin
guished personages, he wrote: Prussia
will steal all she can and will do every
thing to keep it,"
He also believed that should Ger
many be victorious there would result
general exodus from Europe Of all
other nationalities. Dr. Muehlon has
just published in Zurich, the dispatch
states, his notes, under the title "Dev-
astated Europe" and the dispatch adds
that this work CONSTITUTES overwhelm-
ing testimony not only concerning the
responsibilities of Germany in regard
to the war, but also concerning Ger
man opinion during the weeks when it
showed itself most cynical"
On August 5, 1914, DR.. Muehlon
wrote: "When I collect my thoughts |
find the invasion of Belgium is equal
to an appalling loss Cor us from a
moral point of view. l find that we
have acted with more cynicism than
Bismarck ever showed, and that vic
torious war would be far from giving
back to US the confidence of Europe and
of the world"
On August 25, 1914, he noted: "If
the Germans succeed in establishing
t,o11
witness the flight of Europeans. The
most remote corners of Europe will be
the most sought after, and if there is
no spot in the Old World which escapes
German administration then there will
be a general exodus toward the coun-
tries across the seas in all directions, if
only they lead to places where the Cor
mans are not.
Europe will then be a country where
the living conditions will not be worth
the journey. The Germans will not be
allowed to shove themselves outside the
frontiers of their new Germania, and
avoid by all means this horrible object,
the German Only if the sion
ebbs back toward its starting point as
of old will life become at all possible
in Europe"
DR.. Muehlon wrote on August 90
1914: "It is affirmed here that France
has not one army left intact, but l am
convinced that France will not die; she
has no right to die; she will be saved.
1t is true that she cannot expect any
pity from the Germans and that to-day
various influential people said before
me that the German Empire must an
mex all the land between Calais and
Marseilles, and that the inhabitants of
these regions will be expelled unless
they go away of their own accord or
consent to become Germans. Others
consider that France will turn away
from England in order to save herself.
These people are mad. The German
calculations are not like the French"
On August 90 also he wrote: zone
cannot think without shuddering of the
kind of peace which Prussia would i'm
pose upon Europe. Deeper hatred
would make Europe appear as if pos
sessed with devil. Prussia will steal
all she can and will do everything to
keep it, She will never remove her
foot from the breast of those she will
have conquered or taken by surprise.
She will compel foreign culture to
adore her barbarism; she believes only
in the mailed fist inside as we'll as
outside her frontiers"