The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-06
EXPLAINED IN HIS BOOK
Admiral Says 1t Would Be
Madness for Toxic to
Break With U. s.
KAISER ASSAILED AGAIN
Won Bethmann-Hollweg Also
Comes In for Share of Re-
proach in Memoirs.
by KARL II. Won wIEGAND.

by KARL II. Won WIEGAND.
star Correspondent Of TIE suS.
copvri0At, 1919, all rights reserved.
BERLIN, via Paris, Aug. 4 (de-
layed) Admiral Won Tirpitz, former
Minister of Marine in the Imperial
German Cabinet. who has written a
book In which he disclaims RESPONSE
bility for the unrestricted submarine
warfare that intensified the wrath Of
the world against Germany and
caused America to enter the war, ex-
presses the belief In his publication
that japan could have been won to
Germany's side In the first or second
year of the war had It not been for
what he describes as laundering Ger
man diplomacy. In the same breath,
however, he severely condemns Eng
land for enlisting Japan's support to
the allied cause.
In regard to Japan Admiral Won
Tirpitz was informed from various
sources that Germany made loans to
that country between 1905 and 1914,
and he believes an agreement between
the two nations could have been
reached.
II am convinced" he says, that
Japan put out feelers toward us, but
our diplomacy either didn't under
stand or else feared to excite Anglo
Saxon feeling"
He contends that japan could have
ended the war with a gesture In
1915. and even in 1915.
Perhaps" he says, Japan could
have given the war a turn in our IA
vor."
This, apparently, was based on his
supposition that Germany had reached
an understanding with Russia and
that the next proper move was to
seek an agreement with Japan. He
writes this in his book despite his
statement to me in November, 1914,
that Germany would never abandon
the white race"
Won Tirpitz then denounces Eng
land for bringing Japan into the war,
and goes on to describe the japanese
love Of power.
Calls Japanese GraspinE.
'They are primeval people," he
says, ''and for that reason would like
everything. But now that they have
a leading place in the Far East it
would be madness for them to break
with America over the south sea ISL
ands or the question of racial honor
China will probably remain the chief
point Of friction between Japan and
America, as China will not allow her
self to be robbed further of her mar
kets."
He concludes this subject with :
"The future of all the great non
Anglo-Saxon Powers Is problemati-
CAL"
The disappearance of the German
navy, Admiral Won Tirpitz contends,
has robbed other small navies of their
life power, holding that their impor-
tance and independence lay In their
capacity to form an alliance against
the British navy.
1.-The maintenance of balance of sea
power now rests wholly and alone
with the American navy" he says. 81
do not believe there Is serious antag-
onism between the American and the
British navies. Thus capitalism has
mutually yoked all other peoples, and
these, to maintain their freedom, have
no farther support since the collapse
of the German feet"
Admiral Won Tirpltz begins his clos
ing chapter thus: "The Germans
never understood the sea. In the ma
TONS fateful hour the feet was not
used. can only write the epitaph"
Excerpts from letters to his wife
I'LL more than a hundred pages in the
Admiral's memoirs. These letters re-
veal him as heartbroken over his
powerlessness and inability to induce
the Kaiser to let the feet put to sea.
The letters begin August 8. 1914.
In a letter of August 81 he tells of a
luncheon at Coblenz with the Kaiser.
Tells of Talk with Kaiser.
"He was quite satisfied with the
news from all fronts" he wrote. "I
had a two hours walk with him in
the garden. 1t was warm and we
walked slowly. I tried in every way to
enlighten him. but for the time being It
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