Show Suicide of Last Male Krupp Recalled in Indignation Over Recent French S BY ny HARDEN Germanys Germany's Foremost t Ill I'll t bUcl Copyright 1923 1923 1 23 BERLIN DERLIN ERLIN May The 19 Tho The wave of Indignation which tol- tol followed fol followed lowed the Krupp KnIPP sentences sentence In- In Increases In Increases creases rather than subsides There newer n his has been more talkIng done dona In Grman Germany about onor J-onor tenor and shame dignity and l craco of the courts than in the the he last la t week This too de- de de despite spite the tact fact that Germany Is I e iery ery land where it always nh Has ns been ben declared all honor and abides I The moral fervor evoked e by b bythe Y the French sentences Is re- re remarkable remarkable rc hen when It is recalled there long Ions has been ben no genuine Krupp at the head of the great the male mil line hating lia Ing been extinguished in the third generation when Alfred Krupp sent a bullet Into his head hod be- be because be because cause eluse Kaiser Wilhelm with le precipitancy and wIthout proof accused him of homo sexual homo 1 crimes And Krupp also aHo held the foolish no- no notion notion no notion tion that honor was somethIng that could be given ghen fit en or taken Uhn away ny by another person lIke titles decorations or other ol gewgaws gw Naturally the was as concealed and rumors ther thereof Of contradicted by the tho physicians The kaiser kaler made a thunderous oration at the grace gra declaring that only b bv by fello fellows felloes s without II a fath fatherland rland hid had Krupp honor been attacked So wo we 11 e 1 In 1906 and so we Ih the In 1923 1 23 Th The rho Scar old 23 1 23 old car daughter of the then richest man mon in Europe was married by the kaiser I to his Herr Yon Von Bohlen Und a II Prussian noble noble- nobleman nobleman nobleman man who belonged to the kaiser halser s 15 student corps at nt Bonnand Bonn and bad ben been to cle- cle Ie- Ie nna duels He received the imperial title of ambassador and was 0 permitted to 10 assume assum the th name of Krupp ruPp Von Bohlen under Balbach thus becoming head hend of Ihl lh the house whose entire c cap cap- capital cap capital p- p ital belonged to the KruPP family and cannot be bc bought on the Bourse Doure In this posItion it must be admitted he heh fleas s conducted himself like a and nd has shown shown- II a warm Interest for the business It is Impossible to say whether this Interest will I be b continued since Ince Herr was taken from the chairmanship of the theEssen thEssen Essen his directors his place never his has h q been ben and filled tilled and sent to Washington W as QS ambassador 1 the hI newspaper reports of the French martial court do not Implicate Von Yon Bohlen serIously In acts ct of sabotage while tho the and sentence caused anger it must be remembered that this is only the court of first Instance and that the th ap- ap appellate ap p-lIate p court can ean r lse rp Ise or re- re re refers verso fers erso the th verdict for which after all neither the French nor government gO ere responsible Both Doth the trench French people and government nevertheless III 0 been all attacked by the the people and the high German Grman officials official Yet nobody needs neds fear feir this bil billionaire lre will III go co to j jail 11 by the German gO because thy they permitted themselves tobe to tobe tobe be led Into illegal 1 act acts by their belief that there thre had bad h d been cn aGerman a aGerman German revolution Instead of the attacks on the trench along alone lin lines which seri serl- seriously seri seriously ou ly h hamper diplomatic lIc inter Inter- intercourse intercourse course the men responsible for German policies should ask themselves whether they halo 1100 0 not enormously enormously- damaged Gel Gel- min Ger-min man honor by bringinG on the Iho country within a II single Ingle week wk the four notes of Poincare Curzon Mussolini and Theunis all ail of whom hom declare Germans Germano S reparations offer dishonest inadequate In- In in inadequate adequate and Improper J ry clear dear political head hM-d should have foreseen th the char char- character character acter Aeter of these there notes 1 E cry cry- cry thing done by the Cuno Clino e cab cab- cab cabinet b- b met inet has been damaging and odIous and still less pardonable the war ar crimes crims of that firm and company The Th real sinner against Germanys Germany's honor is ho he how ho w ho led Id his country so far tar from the right path so that Itcan il It can can- cannot cannot can cannot not realize it would bre breathe a sigh ot of relief If It it could secure the withdrawal of all of the strong trong french garrisons in the Ruhr by surrendering a tl e and passive e resistance The Tho present attempt to throw the blame on others other is merely theold theold the old trick of oC cryIng stop thief |