Evening star., 1929-06-29

What q day was yesterday Gay
for memories and reflection, DAY !or
significant action in Germany, a. DAY
for contemplation in the hospitals OF
the United States and throughout the
world. Take the items In reverse
take the United States Veterans Bu-
reau hospitals and count the veterans
confined therein with the aftermath OF
the war, whose closing peace was signed
10 years ago yesterday-the Versailles
The peak of the load of patients has
not vet been reached-10 years after.
The veterans are still breaking down
into insanity and mental collapse-1O
years after. A year ago MAY 3D there
were 1902 mental cases IN the nos
pitals, this year, 13,8O0. A year ago
the cases not mental, but covering al
other troubles, numbered 13,047; this
wear. l4441. Total now, 28,241-the
highest number since the war ended
It will be several years yet before we
reach the climax in the hospitals. and
that means net increase, after all who
die or get enough better to leave the
hospitals to struggle along at home.
Some-not many in proportion-have
lived all these 10 years In hospitals
and see no hope of ever leaving but to
their last resting place. Lest we for
get, lest we forgetG'
Yesterday, also, was the anniversary
of the killing of the Austrian grand
duke and his wife, in Serajevo. Serbia.
by q conspiracy of patriots OF that little
country-the country which Austria
Hungary had undertaken to annex
Those shots were heard round the
world" and from them began the World
r.
ficialIy, it was Germany's pretense Tor
insisting that Austria-Hungary make
impossible demands upon Serbia, as an
entering wedge into war.
And now all Germany is denying that
Germany started the war, but Ger
Ylany's leading journalist, Macmillan
Harden, in his review, Zukunft, OF No
vember, 1914, frankly declared:
This war has not been forced on US
by surprise; we have desired 1t. 1t was
our bounden duty to desire it. Germany
wages war because of her humble con-
viction that greater world expansion and
freer outlets are due to her by right Of
her own works"
For a quarter of century, by order Of
Kaiser Wilhelm II, q systematic propa-
ganda had been carried on throughout
through war. Deutschland ueber allesw
1t was supported by the people, led by
the most influential, but it was initiated
and stimulated by the Kaiser.
1t was not dependent solely upon the
power of German arms, but without
scruple, 1t was plotted to include the
SOC, 900 900 Moslems, and three years
after the atrocious and horrifying mas
sacre of the Armenians (1895) by the
-
publicly declared to the Sultan Abdul
Hamid:
May his majesty the Sultan, as we'll
as the 800 900 600 of Mussulmans who
venerate him as their ,Khalifa, be as
sured that the German Emperor Is their
friend forever"
Thereupon Germany sent munitions
of war into Turkey and German officers
to train her forces, and the earliest
event of the World War was German
propaganda throughout Moslem lands
intended to arouse the Mussulmans 70
holy war"--a massacre Of all Chris
tians.
Yesterday, Is years after the crisis of
the beginning of the Kaiser's war" and
10 years after the Versailles treaty was
signed, the German Republic invited
that Kaiser wilhelm II to return to
Germany From the Holland "Elbe" the
modern Napoleon" is to come back.
y y
Does any one imagine that the Kaiser
can sneak back into that country in
cognito-thath his coming will not arouse
nation wide demonstration which will
overthrow the republic and replace him
on the throne, or bring such turmoil
that blood will flow? And then, when
the reactionarieS are again in the sad
die, what Of the Dawes or the Young
plans for collecting reparations?
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1.-The Kaiser's warp"
In September, 19l4--a month after
the war had begun-Dr. Bernard Dern-
burg, late colonial secretary of the Ger
man Empire, arrived in New York City