Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-02
JAPAN TOOK HINT
IN U,S,FLEET CRUISE,
T.R.LETTERS REVEAL
Tirpitx Said Europe Thought
Toxic Would Attack Warships
ON Round World Voyage.
ENDED COVERT THREATS

New York. March Am intimate
pcn-picfure of the former Emperor OF
f,ermsny. drawn by Colonel Roosevelt
in letter to Sir George Otto Trevelvan
in 1911. which shows him in the light OF
an .'adorer" of England, appears in the
March number of Scribner's Magazine
out tomorrow.
IL il the concluding portion Of Rocse-
velts personal 25,oOONword account ri
his travels in Egypt and Europe following
his return from his memorable African
hunting trip.
The former President wrote that William
agreed with him. during the course of a
long interview ut Potsdam, that war
between England and Germany would
be ian unspeskable ca'amity." The
Colonel said that Prince Henry of Prussia,
of whom the then Kaiser was rather
Jealous" WAS "a more really powerful
and cold-blooded man" than the Emperor
and that Of the two, he was the more
hostile 10 England.
Referring to his visit to Berlin, follow
ing delightful receptions in Belgium,
Holland. Denmark, Norway and Sweden,
the Colonel wrote that the German
authorities and people showed him every
courtesy and civility but that. excepting
the university folk, they really did not
want 10 see me" America, he said was
very unpopular in Germany. The upper
classes regarded democracy, he said rs
irregular, unnatural and debaslng. The
lower classes, on the other hand. were
Socialists who regarded me as an enemy
rsther than q friend. The middle class
looked upon me as a representative of an
America which consisted of business
rivals whose rivalry was irritating and
obnoxious"
An interesting sidelIght on Won Tir-
pitt, then the Secretary Of War, was
afforded by the Colonc's reference 10 an
interview with the man who later in
auglirsted the ruthless submarine war
fare. Won 1irpitz, he said, was intensely
interested in the voyage of the American
battletieet around the world. and he told
the former President that he had not
believed I'VE could do il successfully,
adding that the British naval and foreign
offices bad felt the same way. Gle said
he expected Japan would attack the
fleet while it was on its way round the
world.
Il told him." he wrote chat had
not expected such an attack, but that
] bad thought il possible. in other words,
that | thought the chances were against
it, but there was q chance for It, My
point o. view Hi the tlTle the Meet e8lleu.
was that if the japanese attacked it, it
was q certain sign that they were intend
ing TO attack us at the first favorable
opportunity.
Il had been doing my best 10 he polite
20 the Japanese and had finally become
uncomfortabiy conscious of very, very
slight undertone Of yelled turbulence in
their communications In connection with
things that happened on the Pacific
slope: and l finally made up INV mind
that they thought ] was afraid Of them.
Every particle of trouble with the
japanese government and the japanese
press stopped like magic as soon as they
found that our feet had actually sailed,
and was obviously in good trim. AS
told Won Tirptz, | thought it good
thing that the japanese should know there
were fleets of the white races which were
totally different from the feet Of poor
Rojestvensky Won Tirpitz and William,
he said. told him that they regarded The
voyage of the fleet as having done
more for peace in the Orient than any
thing else that could possibly have
happened