Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-21
|V|HAN| SAYS KA|sER's
"AL|BI" WAS PREPARED
Declares Wilhelm Lost Little Timc
After Downfall to Plead Amcli-
Grating Circumstances.
FoREsAw CHARGES TO roLLow
Brands ms False Assertion That
Gcr1nany's Ruler Was Sent"
TO Norway on Cruiser Arranged
by His Ministers.
ny RENE N1NIiNl,
Former Hrcmicr of ErnnCC.

Paris, MAY 20 Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern lost little time after his iEno-
rnintous downfall and the collapse of
his empire 10 plead ameliora.inc cir
] cumstancos. manifcstiy foreseclnE the
charges that would he raised against
him by the civilized would, and on
whichahe is to he tried hy a tribunal
undesythe auspices OF the league Of
AS ssarly as las, December he as
suredisthe world that the war was
the end of July, 1914, ne was "scnt'
10 NSfway on an innocent cruiser,
''arra1lf cd" by his minister's.
That is a false assertion I myself
was in Scandinavia that month, and
know whereof speak; ON July >.
oeIa VISIT Tsf To tho Rng Of 'E sMsdGn
The Kaiser was at that time a; Ber-
requested the Frcnch minister at
Christ ania 10 watch the movements
OF this dangerous traveller.
Told of kai>cr's Departure.
Nowi at 10 o'clock in tho evening
OF July aS i was informed; through
had left Bergen at o'clock that even
Ing This on the face Of II. means
the history marking events in CON
nection with those hours.
July Is, 1919 was the day on which
That same day at O'clock in the
evening the Austrian minister at Bel
grade after having taken cognizancc
the Serbian government. left his post.
retuEned TO Vienna. His TRUNKS had
beenspacksd his plans had been made
be fOreh and-whatcNc the nature of
the Serbian answer.
Now, it was on tina, same day, and
at he same hour. that the German
Emperor left bergen on his return
to Germany.
Program Worked out in Advance.
Can one escape the conclusion that
the whole program had been worked
triaT ultimatum was issued?
AND the Kaiser, who. in Norway,
h had Get the time to hear by
FROM Belgrade, knew Of il nsvcrthe-
less Fknew Of IL so we'll that he him
his Mace in the carefully prepared war.
MAIDS. inevitable on the evening OF July
TN hardly to be doubted that. as
reEmSls the misera bic pawns around
the Emperor who had a hand in tn"
heniPns crime that plunged the world
into .the abyss Of blood and destruc-
ton. they Will seek immunity from
The fact that in an absolute monarchy
ministers. and officials are mere cogs
in thsSw heel, who must obey the inn
rialEwill.
They will unquestionably hide behind
the sinEularly miserable figure of their
Emperor and King.
! do not believe that they will-to
use a popular American phrase-"gct
away" with such an alihi. Bethnann-
HollweE and Won JaEow, who dclibrr-
ately violated neutrality treaty, who
tore up the scrap OF paper; Tirpitz,
Ludendorf and fiindenburG, who sySte-
s matically revelcd in rapine, ;hicvcry.
DillaEe and murder-not 10 mention
the miserable Baron Won I,ankcn. hang
man of Belgium, assassin OF Edith
Caveil-I say ! do not believe that
any OF those wretches VIII escape
punishment.
That would ne very convenient bu;
beeome party 10 crime, knowing that
i Is crime, w!.hou; assuming re
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