The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-27
Germany Impressed in First
Months Of War.

How often In the first months Of the
war | lonRed for q leader such ae this
old man had been, whose crumblirg
body could not dim or fetter his mind.
Instead OF the iron men Of 1870 we bad
WHEN wTN'e ws mould have acted We we ss
still, and when we should have waited
we rushed precipitAtely, TO show the
state we we're III when our plans, orig
lnally designed 10 crush our enemies IN
a matter Of weeks. went awry, can
not DO better than 70 quote from o
letter to ms. wife. written IN October,
1914 was then at grand headquarters.
"a wave Of depression Is passing over
all OF Germany Here things 20 neither
forward nor backward and even time
10 against us. Even N the east We
are not meeting with the real success
We should; We are not attaining our
us, The gigantic hopes OF August have
flown. The kaiser and Bethnenn- Holl.
veg are not holding out we'll They
have not the force nor 1.-The Will. The
kaiser forsooth. seems to have given
the chancellor permission to 50 beg
III am Of no earthly use whatever
here. / had much better be with the
fleet have not seen the kaiser since
! have been here, How can the end
BE- good after such q start7
This war is really the widest In.
sanity In which the white races have
ever eheagsd. We are ekterminatjnG
that England may reap the profits,
Moreover, this same psrfldious Albion,
which has earned tile name through
centuries 10 ready 10 lndict us before
the whole world a. the guilty party.
One almost loses ones faith IN geod1.
ness, % course We gre not entirely
w Uur ssd sss fssr N Srasrado s 0 vas
always sickenins and especially hateful
70 me. And the wrong Of II all - that
C,apelle quite rightly wrote me recently
that ] am now counted among the
chauYinjsts and iingoes,
ADMIRAL Edward capalle was at this
| time director OF operations Of the Ger
man naval general staff Editors
"Today / had long letter from
Balm. He Is working hard for bet
ter understanding with England. Mean.
! while we should be striking England
| with every ounce Of our power ct sea
we have let ourselves be surprised y
| things 60 on thus at sea, our forces
win soon he wiped out and the English
will inclose us IN a circle OF mines Then
\ our fleet VIII be bottled"
| This IA in strange contrast to the
| boagtfulneSs which Won Tirpttz usually
displays In referring to iermany's sea
power, In the middle OF 1918 his pre-.
| dictlon was practically realized. With
| the assistance Of the American mine
laying squadron the ring OF mines was
| completed In the North sea, Editors
| Note)
"Rallin demands OF me that at.
| tempt to come TO some sort OF q nava
| agreement with Churchill Cat that time
| first lord Of the British admiralty In
other words he wants us to abandon
our independent attitude toward Eng
| land and become vasssl state after
| tho French pattern, II our Llebe Herr
| Colt doesn't make a special interces-
| sion II may come 10 that. The Ground
Ii preparing for this new depsrtiirk and
am playing the role aof the wicked
| HcUundrel 81 the war. Ett FMsf
"Thc kaiser Is against the Use o.
| submarines and soine Of bis advisers
| are afraid that they would give Italy
q pretext 20 war on Ms 7 am con,
| WINGED that by not uaihs them We arc
only fritterlng away the sympathy Of
nelltrals When we do not strike they
| lose their respect for us. We mus,
| show them our strength,
but, above an, instead OF talking
4 Of coming TO an agreenient with her
we must set cur knifN into the Eng
| llsh,"
Synopsis Of Eleventh Instalment. Vor
| Tirpitz tells OF the mental condition OF
| the kaiser and his fears OF nervous
breakdown. Intimates that at one stage
| his mind was weakening. Churchill,
efforts 70 save Antwerp. How peact