The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-21
Won TIRPITZ STORY
Of GERMAN DEFEAT
Continued From Previous Issue,

NSo''Lhueu from PREVIOUS lssue.)
Charlsville, Dec 20. laii-rTo a per-
soma! friend, IL. sent me the letter OF
an American as TO the reasons why
opinion IN America and especially
W. We press, is 50 hostile 10 us. lie
SS aSi ! . considerable part Of tRg
Iahlt TO US fer the way we treated
AInerlean Journalists, He compared the
uFbane attitude with which the Rus
SLAMS. English aHd French place the
press representatives on the same So
wv lootlng with the diplomats, with the
we treat them.
The sending out of unpublished brag-
carts also has helped to estrange Amer.
lch' scholars and other prominent men
mentally and cultuFalIy abreast Of the
tlnes would have had a much better
Hilusnee. everything has been or
dered from the head. Anything like
thitlattve or Independent motion has
nseh suppressed In our scheme OF things,
am convinced that my interview
WIN Wiegand will be OF great political
value Nevertheless my political enc.
MIes would have utilized 1t to attack
ne u the interview had not been an.
proved by Zimmerman.
hollors Nnte.-karl Won Wiegandt,
representing a New York ~newspAner'
VISITED grand headquarters in Decem,
per, lslf, and cabled to the United
states interviews with the crown prince,
count Zeppelin and Won TirpIta. Count
zeppelin defended the bombing of IN.
projected cities in England, and Won
Tlrpitz enunGiated lengthy anologIa for
ruthless submarine warfare. This seema
70 be tho first intimation that these
statements were authorized and coun.
tenanced EF Secretary Of FOREIGN AZ.
ialrs Zimmerman.
our success in Russia can not be very
great as we took no guns. The Aus,
trlHhs nave almost completely retired
from Serbia, and we have no further
nope Of getting munitions through 10
Cohstahtlnople. The Runtanians allow
for us. Ne
(Eidtor's Note.-The tactics Of this
Russian artny after the defeat Of Tan
nenberg allowed the entire army to aim
away from Hlndenburg and Luden.
a9flI' Eon Tirpits here admits that
WA Germany announced as . tire
mendous victory was a disappointment.
me Austrians captured Belgrade, carl.
lat OF Serbia, Dec. ~. but retired after
" days, having achieved nothing Of peal
military advantage This was another
hollow victory of which Germany mads
much at the time.1 ~
Charleville, Dec. 81. 1914 ,~-unIess Hin.
Genburg (then In tAo eastl helps tis.
thlnss look bad. We are short Of am
munuition--a strange piece Of neeIect
on the part Of the war office. which
was badly disrupted when wal came
upon US. ~
The terrible year 1914 is drawing to
= close, and ] wonder what hopes and
olsappointments 1915 win bring us, I
can not shake off the fear that peace
WIZ be as disappointing to the German
people as that Of 100 years ago. win
PC satisfied II we so much as retain
tne Gapaeity 70 build ourselves up again,
]rations, do not mean just our class
put the entire German people,
Iharleville, Jan. /, l9t5,-To church
ms morning, Very little good out ~
the sermon which was rhetorical In the
extreme. The emperor was very ayas |
Glous 70 Al. He Ia surrounded by an
lnpenetrable mass, He viii not MAKE
a decision or take the responsibility ~
allowo,lng, me TO. How often has he said
70 Mueller, Now the navy must do
something" yet he will never allow the |
move TO be made, | have no hope OF
turning him except In the face or great
from which God preserve Ger. |
many.
Lack of Ammunition.
Charleville, Jan. s, 1Ot5.-The chan.
celler has asked me for a written opin-
ION on the fate Of Belgium, | shall 20
% Brussels to study the question Al the |
fountain head, and II possible to CON |
suit WIN krupp, At least there should |
meyer again be a customs frontier.
Trentino, The appetite Of the Ruman-
lans Is also growing.
OH saint Hindenburg help US soon,
We need It, Daily we lose men. and
because of lack OF ammunition we can
net, return the fire.
CharIeyille, Jan. o.. 191b,--Etrom the
DERlnnInR tha nntytF hna had .G.n.-.- |
but they were never made the best 81 |
on Dec, ~, however, Ingenohl had Ger |
Hlahys fate In his hands, [ become ey-
cited when ! think OF it,
(Edltor'a Note.-Dec. is, 1915, German !
wafshlps bombarded several unprotect-
60 hhsllsh coast towns with no milf
tary advantage, Severe damage was
inflicted on West Hartlepool, Scarbor- |
ouEh and Whithy)
q k~umanian naval officer who was
framed with us has sent greetings ia
MS former comrades and says that he is
continually. defending Germany, but
that 1t Is OF no use. war will he declared
on. Austria within a few weeks.
! believe threats equivalent to an ul-
tlnatum have come from Italy. In the
east our troops are enraRed with the |
Austrians. who are not to BIO dragged
along,
Charlevile, Jan. 70. 1et5.-yesterdav
! read in the Frankfurter ZeitunE =
speech delivered by Lord Roseberry in
palkeith, in which he said, we are
confronted by two facts OF great i'm, |
portance, Firstly, that unless the Brit |
IN, nation fights to the last shilling
and to the last man she will be suba |
jected forever; and, secondly, that the
German nation, II beaten, win never rise
again to be the greatest military nation
In the world. ~
We have asoertained the relationship
between Joffre and French.
Austria's Critical Position.
Charleyille, Jan. IA, l9t5.-Great 20.
litical matters are pending. II GEMS
20 II we must more or less drop Aus. |
trta or force her to give pieces OF her |
self al prey for the Nultures which