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Show PLEA FOR GERMANY MADE BY GRAND DUCHESS Mother of Crown Prince! Admits Error of Wr; She's a Russian. j : ! By Associated Press. (1KNKVA. 1'ec. Is. Germany mads la great blunder In entering the war and should admit thai she was wrong, declares the Gmnd Duchess Anastasie of Mecklenburg - St tiwerln, mother of the former German crown princess. In nn Interview. The grand duchess, who Is a Russian and a cousin of the late Russian emperor. Tame to Geneva at the outbreak of the war and now is about to go to the Riviera for her health. She had many relatives fighting fight-ing ngalnst one another on all fronts, IS THIS PROPAGANDA. The correspondent was the first newspaper man she had talked with since the beginning of the war. Replying Re-plying to a question about the former emperor and the former crown prince, site nld pathetically: -Ther is a splendid maxim ?n your language: 'Ion t hit a man when he Is down.' I.et us observe thi- principle, princi-ple, this sporting principle, during our tonversat Ion." j WAR SURPRISED HER. j Asked why she had left Germany as , soon as that country began mibtarv operations, the grand duchess replied I 'l could not remain In a country 1 which had declared war on my own "country --Hoia. This war cams as a i great surprise to me and mv eon i Frederick Krans VI, grand duke of Mecklenhurg-Schwerln, who abdicated several weeks asm, although we were in constant touch w ith the royal families fam-ilies of Germany. Russia and I n -mark. R has been wild (hat not morel than twentv persons In Germanv un-l derstood what a cruet mistake It was ! going to be. I was one of them. How- ever, as 1 never meddled In politics, fj was not able to Interfere. THEY ARE SORRY. ' But I continued to think that Germanv Ger-manv made a treat blunder tn entering enter-ing this terrible struggle. Now she has 1ot nil. Ormnny should recreate; a political, financial and artie'tic nation na-tion by openly admitting- 'We acted wrongly- we are sorry.' The grand duchess said she nat no news from her daughter, the former i crow n princess, since September, except ex-cept through a letter from her eldest daughter, the queen of pen mark, saving sav-ing that both of them were well. She made an appfa) for help for the country coun-try of her birth, saying: HELP POOR RUSSIA. "If the allies abandon Russia, Russia Rus-sia Is lost. About Tl per cent of the Russians have respect for only two things God and the csar. The peasants peas-ants now say "We have no czar, whom shall we obey? -It will take the population fifty years "tn understand the meaning ot the words "republic and president.' The Russian people want some one. fo worship because it Is their custom, 'their religion and their lives f.et- the allies take note snd help poor Russia , before It is too lale.,' ' ( . " |