Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-21
.W|LHELM'S PRIDE
IN NAVY SHOWN
Letter Expressed His Hope
of Russia's Cooperation
Against Britain.
Copyright. 1920.)

that the navy will act in unison with
that of Russia The kaiser has one tune
to play-Russia must cooperate with
him against Great Britain. These let
ters disclose how closely the kaiser
kept in touch with the car, and led
up to the famous meeting off Bjorko in
1905, at which the car committed him.
self to secret treaty with Germany,
which the cars cabinet, however. man
aged to nullify.
By the arrival of the Russian cruiser
Nar1ag-which was built in the United
States-at koweit, a port of the Persian
gull near the outlet of the Tigris, Russia
INDICATED its interest in Persian gulf
trade The kaiser, bent on building the
Bagdad railway, hopes to cooperate
with Russia in keeping England out
OF this sphere of commercial develop
ment.
The letters were copied in the
arcniVes OF the soviet government at
MOSCOW by Isaac Don Levine who had
access to all the documents there.
Gives Naval Information.
Neues Palais. January 3, 1902
dearest Nicky: These lines are to
wish you merry Christmas and a
happy New Year. (Russian New Year
was thirteen days later according to
old style). May God bless and protect
you and wife and children and keep
You all sound in body and soul Nav
your work for the peace of the world
De successful as well as the plans Won
are maturing for the welfare Of your
country. '0u'
Il send you as Chrfsmtas present nm
9fncers dirk. corresponding to the model
l introduced into our navy by order
dated from the Variag'; which I hep
you 10 accept as souvenir of the kind
". VISIT you paid me of Danzig and of
me e., merry hours we spent together.
csd
among our officers that l believe thev
even go to bed with il.
MY Meet, Henry and I are already
oohins Forward to the day we shall he
a oie to repay your visit this year and
av s,ean oe most glad to know when you
expect US and where?
AS You take such interes. IN o,,r
navy II VIII interest you to hear. that
.He new armored cruiser, Prince Henry,
10 iapioiy nearing completion and has
aiIeaoy tried her engines on the snot
s VIII most satisfactory results She is
triais end 70 Q, ION 36 the feet after her
81 patte ship. 'Charlemagne'-the AIR
y. .ne KAISER class-will, it is hone,i
De ready for her trials at sea end ~
aext week and Henry hopes he viii
JOIN his in a month WI"
Inc Wittelsbach class is being
pushed forward with ali sneed ans
II is hoped will be able to ioin Hsrr,, G
nag after the maneuvers. Tbis
means an addition of fve line NJ hat0
lie SHIPS. which will enable him 70
dispose OF a fully homogeneous fleet
.. peacemakers' which no doubt will
and useful in helping Won to ken tha
world quiet. The five new line Of
Dattle ships have all been contracted
TOT and have been begun. They con-
susute the first division of the sec
ond squadron. see
BY the by, see by the papers that
the historical variaS has arrived a.
Howeif. That is a very wise thing
that your flag Is shown there For
IL does not seem impossible that an
other power (England) was in the
act OF repeating the very successful
experiment. It made on the Nile, to
some men and guns. hoist some flag
or other, under q pretext, and then
say: J'y suis, ~ reste? ('Here I am.
here remainr) In this case it would
nave meant paramount rule Of all the
trade routes of Persia leading to the
gulf, by this OF Persia itself, and by
that Ia, ia to your proposed estab-
!ishment OF Russian commerce, which
Is very ably begun by the conclu-
sion Of the 'zollverein' (customs
with Persia by you.
Advantage Of Biz Fleet.
The behavior of the foreign power
at Koweit sets into a strong relief
the enormous advantage of an over
fleet. which rules the APP
proaches from the sea to places that
have no means of communication
over land. but which we others can
not approach because our fleets are
too weak and without them our
transports are at the mercy of the
enemy.
This shows once more how very
necessary the Bagdad railway is,
which I intend German capital to
build. If that most excellent sultan
had not been dawdlirtg for years with
the question the line might have been
begun years ago and would now have
patching few regiments from Odes-
sa straight down to Koweit, and then
that would have turned the tables on
the other power by reason Of the
Russian troops having the command
of the inner lines on shore, against
which even the greatest fleet is pow
erless for many reasons. The main
one-according to an adaptation of
the commander of Kronstadt's answer
to Peter the Great for not saluting
him-D'abord. parceque les vais-
seaux ne peuvent pas marcher sur
terre' (because ships do not proceed
on land). whereas you may say.
Celia sufiit'- (this suffices).
The original answer of the gallant
admiral, Dabord, parceque je mai
plus de poudre,' because I have no
more powder) was vouchsafed the
the captain of the Askold. My squad
ron had received orders to feast your
namesday by a rich display Of bunt-
ing and of a royal salute. But when
Henry inquired from the Capt. Won
Reitzenstein at what CLOCK the cere-
q tab nlo hA lot AZ
declared he would do nothing of the
sort. And even after Serge had sent
word to him fatty refused to hoist
his pennant and to salute his en-
peror, Notwithstanding that she is in
commission and has her whole crew
disappointed and much-if I may
venture to say so-disgusted at the
behavior of this man.
Book on South African War.
81 am sending you, beside the dirk.
a most interesting book about the
South African war. written by an
Englishman. who wholly condemns
the ends for which it was begun. 1t
is very lucid. to the oint and shows
that the author maintains his i'm
partially to the last moment; most
gratifying exception to the rule now
at work in England. The parallel he
against the American colonies. 1775-
SO, is most surprising and striking.
The bearer of my gifts is my aid
de-amp. Capt Won Usedom-years
ago for time Henry's adjutant. He
was in command Of the Hertha dur
ing the China affair. and it was he
who saved the Seymour expedition
and brought it safe back to Tientsin.
He was. in fact. the admirals chief
of the staff and to him was given
the now historical order. of which
my 'b,uejackets' are so proud: Ger