The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-02

, he left Paris an eminent Frenchman
told him that if the u. S. senate fall
ed to ratify the peace treaty there
would be q revolt in Europe that
would be akin to volcanic eruption.
room, pushed by the shoulder to the
(, door, and then led out of hearing. He
was never allowed to know the STRAIT
egg of his generals or the true course
of the hostilities.
l think he is affectionately disposed
toward Hindenburg, but very bitterly
disposed toward Ludendorff.
Regrets Lusitania and Caveil Cases
AS to the character of the war, he
holly resents the charge of organized
atrocities and steadfastly refuses to
believe that any evidence worthy of
| the name exists for such monstrous
wickedness.
He says OF the sinking of the Lusi-
tania that 1t was a great blunder. and
one that he will never cease to regret,
but he says England's policy Of at
| tempting to starve the women and
children Of Germany had driven his
people out of all patience and quite
maddened them against England.
Of the shooting Of Miss Cavell he
declares that the order was given by a
general who was the worse for drink,
and that directly he heard Of the exc.
cution he sent orders to headquarters
that henceforth no woman was to be
| shot without his own personal sane
ton. He deplores that execution.
He says the German armies fought
nd oh H1lt pfS
devotion to duty. and he fires up and
becomes furious with indignation
when they are pictured as brutal
Huns.
The question of Belgium is SO clear
in his eyes that he cannot understand
how honest men can doubt the right
of Germany to go through that neut-
raj territory. He says that under
Lord Haldane's administration of the
British War Office he regarded Lord
Haldane as England's cleverest spy.
Plans were laid with the consent of
King Alberts government for attack
ing Germany through Belgium He
possesses a British overcoat found, as
he says, at Maubeuge, with immense
quantities of British stores. He says
that with Russia threatening Ger
essential that Germany should take
no risks on the other front The vio-
lence Of German methods in Belgium
he defends on the score that Belgian
francstireurs were attempting to I'M
nerve the German armies and break
their discipline. He declares that no
harm would have befaIlen city or
village of Belgium if the Germans had
not been exposed on all sides to Sec
ret attacks of Belgian citizens
Thinks England Was Deceived
His full blame for the catastrophe
Of war is laid on Russia. His attitude
toward England is curiousIy sympa-
thetic. He does not think, as he was
once minded to, that Englands Mach
iavellian statesmen deliberately
brought about the war He now says
England was deceived by Russia and
that she had nothing to do when the
war came but to keep faith with her
allies. He deplores her entrance into
the conflict which sealed Germany's
fate, but he is not at all bitterly dis
posed toward England, although his
hatred of British journalists, OF
whom he says that they have DELHI
erately perjured their souls IN a most
Ubiquitous determination to blacken
the German character at all costs, is
strong. vigorous and unforgiving. No
English newspaper is now read by the
kaiser. He says he finds their un-
critical abuse and libelous villification
beyond the power of his tolerance
Russia's war minister is for the
fallen German emperor the Judas Is
CARROT Of the world. He has no Ian
guage too strong for his condemna-
tion of this dishonest and treacher-
Gus" man. The doom which has be-
fallen Russia seems to him like the
judgment Of GOD.
AS for Germany he is convinced
that she will rise in righteousness and
power from the ashes Of unacceptable
defeats incurred in defending her free
dom from q world in arms.
He feels that England has never
realized the justice of Germany's
dread off Russia. England at one
time feared Russia, at another time
vilified and scorned her, and at an
other time fell upon her neck and
kissed her, but for Germany Russia
has always been a world menace, in
scrutable and treacherous. mass of
black ignorance, savage ferocity and
almost soulless animalism, which
moving westward would one day flood
the world with anarchy and death.
Always for Germany Russia has been
Bolshevist.
Denounces Free Masonry.
AS to the future of the world the
kaiser entertains the conviction that
everything precious in human life is
now menaced with destruction by the
organized forces of evil. He has
found new peril Bolshevism for
him is only a criminal alias for Free
Masonery. He is convinced that athe-
istical and socialistic Free Masonry,
as it exists on the Continent, is a