| Show Kaiser Says America Won War f Jf Jf Jf f t Jf Jf Jf U. U S. S Forces Gave Decisive Turn burn 4 v T V t. t K wT I j rC t. t o I. I Justifies Flight From Countr Country By Karl Von Americas America id rea ed Germany and won the war for the allies No les lesan less lessan an authority than the exiled exiled emperor emperor em em- Wilhelm Vilhelm I I. I pins t the e y victory medal on the tho United States He 7 ought to know That Wilhelm is not on his throne today is is' is because America Americ entered j the war In a book entitled entitled Wanderings Wanderings Wanderings Wan With Kaiser Vill Wilhelm elm II by y Lieutenant Colonel Niemann attached at attacked at- at tacked to the former kaisers kaiser's personal per per- suite during the war written 1 largely to justify and wh whitewash I the ex kalser land and set him right before the world 0 rid Wilheln says I many interesting things The most moot i Interesting is t tI I believe that we wo would would- ld have been able to stand against the tho thoan annihilating annihilating an an- will of ot the European powers and anti broken it it the Ute United States had not liot appeared appeared on on the battlefields Their appearance gave the decisive decisive decisive de de- de- de turn and forced us b ba bask k into a and tactical d defense Cense We Ve neglected no possibilities possibilities- for tor maintaining the friendliest relations with the United States Stales Today roday we know that the then president of Or the United States was determined d from the beginning to apply appl every means to prevent the central European an powers from gaining a military vic vic- tory In mapping out the work ork of the American army it was brought up to a point of ot the highest efficiency and a tremendous naval and anel transport transport trans trans- pc port rl fleet was created Finally when the fruit was ripe Tipe the American Ameri Ameri- can people were called to arms Hopes Deceptive I admit that we did not this danger in time and that we were in deceptive hopes that than America would wear the mask of ot arbitrator of ot the world until the final peace nut Hut nothing alters the tho fact that the active participation of the United United United Unit Unit- ed States I in the war was un unpreventable prevent prevent- preventable able and that peace negotiations could not be initiated ted after atter the Stars and St Stripes had been wound with military laurels Wilhelm want wanted d to put down the German revolution In the the fall fall of or 1918 with H-b H the army Nobody would help or fellow tellow him bim In the book he saS sa'S says On November 9 disorders at home were approaching the stage of or revolution I was ready to oppose revolt with armed force Coree I was told flatly by the responsible men in high command that the army had failed me ml ine flatly and arid refused to follow follow me meas meas as asp its comander chief to march ag against a n. domestic army The h former kaiser confirms that it wa was suggested by General Groener Greener that he should seek death on the battlefield saying Quite as aside de from that I reject I tempting God or even ven suicide asI as I unmoral I cannot see Bee what purI purpose pur- pur pose would have been heen served or orI I I I what benefit come from such a staged staged staged stag stag- ed heroic rite An act of or despair on on op my mr part would have been equivalent to an ineradicable le confession of ot guilt c T Th The hev former kaiser does not explain ex ex- plain whether also because he considers coni con con- i ciders siders side s it tempting tempt ng G God d and unmoral unmoral un un- moral he refused d to accede to s urgIngs Ings to challenge challenge Llo Lloyd 1 Georges George's s statement three years ears ago that German Germany Ger Ger- man many was vas alone guilty of th the wand w- w war wr r and demand an international int tribunal tribunal tribunal tri tri- bunal so that the ques question might be he unrolled before the rhe world It had been pointed out ito to him that Lloyd George decla declared ed Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- JUan many's s sole guilt was was the very velY foundation of the treaty of or Versailles Versailles Ver Ver- sailles games and that if it that foundation were shaken the treaty would fall falI H He was told th that t if It h he brought up the question th through ough a demand for fora a trial bal the German people In the end odium inthe in inthe might be relieved of much the eyes of or the people of or the world General von Dommes brought to Potsdam the kaisers kaiser's answer Jib Ills majesty sa says 8 he Is not subject subject subject sub sub- to any earthly tribunal and that moreover such an a act t on his part would be a national humiliation f for r Germany end and the German peo peo- pIe Justifies Flight According to his Lieuten Lieuten- Lieutenant ant Colonel NIeman Ieman he ho justifies his hilt I Ii flight from the arm army and the country country coun- coun j i try and he finds he did the right thing Nieman quos S' S again Again and again I l l h asked myself whether I could acted otherwise than I did In five years ears of exile one becomes critical against ones one's self solf More ore than ever er e I am convinced con con- vinced that history will justify my myOn I IOn On Last Page I v AMERICA WON ON THE WAR U From Page One J reasons and motives Wilhelm places the greater part of the bl blame for rOl Germanys Germany's y condition condition condition condi condi- tion today on President Wilson Vilson declaring declaring declaring de- de de de- claring The enemy league with President dent Wilson at Its head used the utter demoralization of the German people against me The fhe red flag became the signal for disorder and that without either softening the determination of Or our enemies for Germanys Germany's annihilation or developing develop develop- ing any act in d self tense The former kaiser frankly admits that tha the German high command helped to Russia declaring declaring ing j The Tho of the Russian Russian Rus Rus- Rus-I Rus sian army which eventually gave us a free hand in ill the east was at atthe atthe atthe the request of the high command furthered b by us ms The political dangers to Germany German r the kaiser declares were underestimated mated They were an Infection which gradually ly penetrated penetrated- the arteries of ot the German people where under growing p physical psychical depression depression de de- de- de it more and more created create a decomposition position The book bears many evidences of careful collaboration with the tIle former form form- er kaiser for tor effect on public opinIon opinion opinion ion In Germany and abroad after his own memoirs proved pro a signal failure except for the financial re re- re turns For r the Ule kaisers kaiser's own book re-I re I Ian an American firm paid almost a quarter of a million dollars J |
