Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-14
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COUNT DEPLORES
RUIN OF BELGIUM
Bismarck's Heritage Proved
Curse For Germany, Say
Austrian's Memoirs

Venna.-Interesting extracts from
the memoirs of Count Czernin, the
late Austro-H Hungarian foreign min
lister, which are to be issued soon,
entitled ''The World War;" are pub
lished in the Wiener Mattagspost.
The book consists of twelve chapters
1t starts with European events in
1914. France and Great Britain. ac-
cording to Count Czern1n, did not at
that time want war. Roumanla ana
Italy were confronted with accomp-
lished facts. Other noteworthy re-
marks scattered through the BOOK
are: "Bismarck's heritage has been
a curse for Germany" Kaiser W IL
helm was a prisoner of his generals
The German invasion OF Belgium
was the greatest misfortune; Herr
Won Tschirshky (the German am
bassador in Vienna) was the German
Tsvolaki."
The second chapter, headed
s'Konopischt," describes the char
acter of the Archduke Franz Ferdin-
and. He was a well-balanced TAU
sgeglichene) nature" says the count
but embittered and filled with fan
atical antipathy TO everything Hun
garian. The cooler his relations with
the Emperor Francis Joseph became
the more he felt himself draw to-
wards Kaiser wilhelm. \ three
emperor alliance of Austrla-Hun-
gary, Germany and Russia ought IN
his view, TO have been formed as n
bulwark against revolution. He was
not in favor, however, of closer
political union with Germany. He
was no jingo, and was in general not
unfriendly disposed toward Serbia.
Crown Prince Pacifist
Count Czernin, in one passage, says
the German crown prince In 1871
was an avowed paciiist.
The chapter "Roumania" opens
with the authors becoming am
bassador at Bucharest in the autumn
of 1918. When the news of the
murder of the Archduke Franz Ferd-
inand reached Bucharest NJ. rake
Jonescue wept, and the entire Rou-
manian capital mourned with MN.
Then suddenly came a swing round,
and ultimately concessions in Hun
gary were demanded for Roumania'
neutrality but Count Tisza refused
these. Count Czernin then becomes
foreign minister and just as Prince
Hohenlohe does, warns against the
ruthless submarine war. An inter-
esting chapter headed Peace Eff
forts is already fairly familiar.
According to Count Czernin, II was
Nicholas II who initiated the peace
feeler in February, 1917. The Rus
san revolution then broke out. In
the course of his peace efforts Count
Czernin received from the German
Chancellor, Doctor Michaelis, letter
in which the latter said he desired to
bring Belgium, Courland, Lithuania
and Poland into close military and
economic connection with Germany,
and to make Longwy and Briey of
economic utility to Germany. The
Supreme Army Command demanded
on its part the military control of
Belgium, and that it should enter
into an offensive and defensive al
lance with Germany. 1t also de-
manded Liege and the Flanders
eoast.
Efforts at Peace
In q chapter entitled wilson
Count Czernin asserts that an attempt
to reach an understanding with the
President was interrupted by his own
resignation.
Regarding Poland. Count Czernin
says one of the principal opponents
TO an Austro-olish solution was
Count Tisza- During the Brest-
Litovsk peace negotiations even the
Bulgarions assumed a threatening
attitude. The Germans feared the
Entente might agree to a general
peace. Marshal Won Hindenburg
sent furious kilograms saying they
were giving up everything. General
Dudendorff telephoned hourly. Gem
eral Hoffman, brought about a
failure of the negotiations in order
10 knock the Russians on the head
once more and TO advance on Petro-
grad, while the Kaiser sent a tele-
gram demanding Lovonia and Es-
tbonia. This was the mood in which
peace was to be concluded.
One point of a chapter entitled,
The Peace of Bucharest" is that Ger
many demanded that her occupation
of Roumania should continue for
four to six years after general
peace.
Count Czernin, in his final reflec-
tions, deals with the Versailles peace
and the world danger of Bolshe-
risIn,' and hopes the present state
OF things Will be corrected by the
future generation