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Show Grand Duchess, Who Opposed Op-posed Germans' Entrance En-trance in War, Talks, APPEALS FOR RUSSIA Says'iffiies "Musf Not Abandon Russians Dur-Hour Dur-Hour of Need. GENEVA. Dec. 15. (By The AfesoV ciated Press) Germany made a great blunder in entering the war and should admit that she was wrong, declared the Grand Duchess Anastasie of Mecklenburg-Sch werin, mother of the former German crown princess, in an interview today. The graud duchess, who Is a Russian and a cousin of. the late Russian emperor, came to Geneva Gen-eva at the outbreak of the war and now is about to go to-the Rlveria for her .health She had many relatives fighting against one another on all fronts. The correspondent was the first newspaperman she talked with since the beginning of the war. Replying to a question about the former emperor em-peror and the former crown prince, she said pathetically: "There is a maxim in your language: lan-guage: 'Don't hit a man when he Is down.' Let us observe this principle, this shorting principle, during our conversation." Asked why she had left Germany Ger-many as soon as that country began be-gan military operations, the grand duchess replied: "I could not remain a country which had declared war on my own country Russia. This war came as a grpat surprise to me and my son, Frederick Franz IV, (grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Schwerin who abdicated several weeks ago) although we were in constant touch with the royal fain-' ilics of Germany, Russia and Denmark. Den-mark. It has been said that not more than twenty persons in Germany Ger-many understood what . a cruel mistake it was going to be. I was one of them. However, as I never meddled in politics, I was not able to interfere. "I continued to think that Germany Ger-many made a great blunder in entering en-tering this terrible struggle. Now she has lost all. Germany should recreate a political, financial and artistic nation by openly admit- ting: "'We acted wrongly; we are sorry.' " The grand duchess said she had no news from her daughter, the former crown princess, since Sop-tember, Sop-tember, except through a letter from her eldest daughter, "the queen of Denmark, saying that both of them wgto well. She made an appeal for help for the country coun-try of her birth, saying: "If the Allies abandon Russia, Russia is lost About 7S per cent of the Russians have respect for only two things, God and tho czar.- The peasants now say 'We have no czar, whom shall we obey?' "It will take the population fifty fif-ty years to understand the meaning mean-ing of the words republic and president. The Russian people want some one lo worship because it is their custom, their religion and their lives. Let the Allies take no'to and help poor Russia ' before it Js too lata-"- - |