The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-30

ourselves from the internal torture or
our thoughts. That evening at Z our
minister at Christiania, pursuant to
orders which / had given him over
the telephone, informed me that the
German emperor had left Bergen for
an unknown destination. The comedy
was drawing to an end. The real drama |
was to be hurried onward by the return /
of that innocent and naive traveller.
We left Stockholm at II o'clock that
night. Never did see such a contrast
between nature and the painful feel
had gathered over our heads all their
ings of all those present The heavens /
splendors; the white wake of our ma /
jestic ship was bathed in light. In our
minds, however, the shadows were be-
ginning to deepen.
Only Measer News Of UItimatum
We tried constantly to get news. A
piercing whistling sound would cut
through the air. What did it bring?-
nothing but an unintelligible message
on sheet of paper! Another!-only
a sentence bearing no relation what
ever to anything else! And all the
time we were waiting to learn what
the Serbian answer was. Convinced
that counsels of moderation and pru-
dence had been given by France and
Russia, convinced of the sense of duty
of the noble little Serbian nation, we
| felt sure in advance that its answer
would be conciliatory and of a nature
making possible an honorable settle
ment
The 26th and 9th were without
news. Each hour that passed, we felt,
undoubtedly marked some grave event,
but we were unaware what it might be.
We could not know it. The German
governmental was learned later
from documents found at Metz-had
given orders to disturb wireless COM
munications.
Here is what was found in the files
of the German wireless station at
Metz:
1 July 18th. 2 o'clock. "The governor
orders that French wireless communi-
cations be disturbed in such a way as
not to constitute a violation of peace"
4 tGouy. befielhlt Stoerung franzoesis-
chen Funkenverkehrs in elmer den
FTieden NIGHT verletzenden Form.)
o'clock. 1.-THE communication en-
gineer of the wireless orders that
French Russian wireless communica-
tons be disturbed. ...."
July 20. O'Clock. The Eiffel tower
has understood our intention of dis
turbing its communications and it is
evidently trying to deceive us by trans
mlttlng with great energy to Dunkirk
, news for the steamship France, .
which does not answer. an view of the
possible Importance to Russia of the
contents of the dispatches, this trans.
mission is also blocked (unterbun.
, den)."
, And here is why we knew nothing
of what was going on.
Surrounded by the solitude of the
. sea, far from all men, it is impossible
: to know what is going on in the world
t Responsibility, no matter how crushing
! 1t may be, is assumed proudly wher
! the will to assume it is based on real
r lty. Out there on the sea, though, we
mad nothing On which to shape our &C
tions. How thought is strengthened
/ when it Eliminates the inner world
! which man carries within himself! Blu
what agony one suffers, on the othe1
t hand, when one is confronted with the
necessity of acting upon the QUITE,
f world and is deprived of every mean:
f of doing so!
+ On the morning of the 9th we re
i ceived the following: Satisfactory re
b ply from Serbia; admirable in it.
) moderation" And yet, in spite of this
J. the Austrian minister had taken hi
# departure from Belgrade two hour
t after he had received the reply. Wha
did this mean?
V AS we drew nearer to France, w,
n guessed the nature of the sombre i'm
|. brogl1o, which, engineered cleverl-
L and violently, served as the framework
2 for the situation. Germany. haiIini
e 1oyfully the return of her emperor. re
II fused to intercede with Austria, and. a
o the same time, arrogantIy demande,
q that we seek to influence Russia. Sb
4 even offered to appear our friend i,
| this task, acting conformity with us. he
! purpose being to denounce Russis
e with backing from us, as the guilt
= party
70 Refusal of further delay; no int,