The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-15
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,f the general staff. and, when he
siso proved to be calm ana unwor-
himself asked for a summer
leave Of absence to 20 to Carlsbad,
decided. though with a heavy heart.
uron my departure.
The much discussed so-callcd Pots
dam crown council OF July 8 iu real
U.y never took place. II IL an In
y'rtion of malevolcnt persons.
Naturally. before my departure,
r,,DIvcd. as was my custom, some
nj the ministers individually, In or
der 20 hear from them reports con-
corning their departments. Neither
Ga. there any council of ministers
and there was no tank about war
rs.p .parations at a single one OF the
conferences.
Ny fleet was cruising IN the Nor
Verian fiords, as usual while ! was
ON my summer vacation trip. Dur
lrs my stay at Bulholm I received
nrIy meagor news from the foreig o
office and was obliged 90 rely prin-
c.pa.y on the Norwegian news
pIpcrs, from which | got tho i'm
ursssion that the situation was
growing worse. telcgruphed re-
peltodly to the chancellor and the
foreign office that / considered It
advisable to return home. but was
asked each time not to interrupt nay
Journey.
when learned that the English
fleet had not dispersed after the re-
view at Spithead, nut had remained
concentrated, 1 tclegraphed again to
Berlin that ] considered my return
necessary. My opinion was not
shared there.
hut, when, after that, | learned
from the Norwegian ucwspa pcrs-.
not from Bcrl!n-about the Austrian
tlfimatum to Serbia, and, immc-
datcly thereafter, about the Serbian
note to Austria, | started without
further ado upon my return journey
and commanded the fleet TO repair
10 Wilhelmshaven Upon my de-
parturo I learned from u Norwegian
source that II was said that a part
OF the English fleet had left secretly
for Norway in order to capture me
Ghough peace still reignedD. II IS
significant that Sir Edward Goschen,
the English ambassador, was inform
ed on July 26 at the foreign office
that my return journey. undertaken
on my own initiative, was 90 be
lfhA tNNfNt fAllAF hhNNANHINk AAlNhA q
mlght be caused by H..
says War Was Not Forcsccn.
Upon my arrival at Potsdam |
found the chancellor and tho foreign
oftiCe In conflict with tho chief OF
the general STAFF. since General Won
Moltke was OF the opinion that war
was sure TO break oIt, whereas the
other two stuck firmly to their view
that things would not get TO such
a bad pass, that there would be
some way Of avoiding war, provid-
cd | did not order mobilization.
This dispute kept up steadily. Not
until General Won Moltke announced
thnt the Russians had set fire to
their frontier posts, torn up the
frontier railway tracks and posted
red mobilization notices did a light
break upon the diplomats in the VIII
hclmstrasse and bring about both
their own collapse and that Of their
powers OF resistance. They had not
wished TO believe In the war.
This shows plainly how little we
had eXpected--much less, prepared
war in July, 1914. when, in the
spring OF 1914. Car Nicholas H. was
questioned by his court marshal as
90 his spring and summer plans, he
replied; "Je resteral chez moi cetto
aimee parceQue nous aurOnS ia
Euerre." Il shall stay at home this
year because we shall have war;
tThls fact. Il g. said. was reported
20 Imperial Chancellor Won Beth
mann; | heard nothing about 1t then
and learned about IL for the first
time In November, 19lSD This was
the same czar who gave me, on two
separate occasions-at Btorko and
Baltlsch- -Port--entirely without be-
ing pressed by me and IN a way that
surprised me. his word OF honor as
sovereign, 10 which he added
weight by a clasp OF tho hand and
On embrace, that he would never
draw his sword against the German
emperor-leas of all as an ally OF
EnRlaud-in case q waG should
break out In Europe. owing 10 his
gratitude to the German emperor
FOR his attitude In the Russo-Jap'
enese war. in which England alone
had involved Russia. adding that he
hated England, since she had done
MIN and Russia n great wrong by in,
citing Japan against them.
Al the very time that the czal
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