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Show VISITED SALT LAKE. Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, who built the German fleet and lived long enough to witness its destruction, recently re-cently published his memoirs. He freely free-ly criticizes his countrymen in high places and does not take any blame to himself for the overwhelming disaster dis-aster which has overtaken the Gorman empire. He bemoans the fact that millions mil-lions of Germans scattered over the globe became citizens of other countries coun-tries and sworo allegiance to foreign governments. "To my great grief," he says, "I was fated to catch the sound of the Swabian dialect round about me in the tabernacle of the city of Mormons, and listen to a missionary who had been scut into the 'land of tho heathens' to get converts, describing describ-ing certain parts of Germany as particularly par-ticularly fruitful for his labors." Von Tirpitz was in Salt Lake in 1S97, when he was recalled from eastern Asia in the spring of that year and was traveling trav-eling home across the United States. It was in this city, he says, that ho was informed by American journalists that a campaign against him had started in the German press. Perhaps few people recall tho fact of the grand admiral's visit to this city twenty-two years ago, but ho appears to have a somewhat vivid recollection of the event. Doubtless Doubt-less Salt Lake has eutertaiued many "angels" unawares, or at least many men and women who will become prominent prom-inent in the years to come. |