TH4E R TH M HIGAN [ - RESPONSIBILITY f5SON EX-EMIPEROR AS MARTYR AN INSTIGATOR STRIFE RATHER OF eam of world dominion obsess- e mind of Emperor William I the world into war. Upon d the tremendous military eng- destruction of which he was abodiment, the exponent, and der, rests the responsibility of ately planning and bringing he greatest conflict the world or seen. I not matter to the world that peror's personal share in the ivents immediately preceding r had been obscured. The onvicted him of organizing, di- and maintaining at the top f efficiency, the great German y machine. It remembered that ied the order for the German tion. It remembered that he ponsor for the terrorism and lage which, under the guise of , ravished Belgium, laid waste es of France, depopulated and d Serbia and sent the Lusi- rith her freight of women and n to a grave in the Atlantic. doubt whether William was sane.He said repeatedly possessed a divine mandate , that the Almighty was his litional and avowed ally." It entirely clear whether such ngs were the product of a din- . brain or were due to un- d egotism and an effort to im-' his subjects with the idea of t and unquestioning submis- Hlis speeches to his armies in Lie asserted he and they were ments of divine judgment upon y's enemies" Were regarded ny outside of Germany 'as of rhetoric, intended only to his own people. "Me und Gott" am's claim to close affinity od was the burden of dozens speeches long before, as well r, the beginning of the war. Of perhaps, none more clearly de- his claim than his notorious "divine right" speech delivered at Brandenburg in 1890, in which he said he regarded the German people as "a responsibility" conferred upon him by God and that it was "my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give ac- count. Those who try to interfere with my task I shall crush.' The German war party grew with William as its head, and the scheme of world dominion awaited the hour to begin its attainment. It came with the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his wife at Sarajevo. Recalled from a yachting trip, Wil- liam presided at a conference at Pots- dam of representatives of the German and Austrian armies, navies and commercial interests. There, accord- ing to the best information obtain- able, the decision was reached to make the assassination of the arch- duke a pretense for the world war for which Germany had long prepared. Poses as Martyr In the diplomatic exchanges be- tween Germany and Austria on one side and Great Britain, France and Russia on the other side William pos-, ed as one wishing for peace but driv- en to war. He signed the order for the mobilization of the German army and from that moment war was in- evitable. Thereafter he drove on his armies relentlessly in the mad cam- paigns for victory, encouraging them with every devicerandsometimes ap- pearing on the front to be proclaim- ed as personal commander in a great offensive. Publication of the "Willy-Nicky" correspondence in 1917, placed the. German emperor in the light of an unscrupulous plotter. The telegrams disclosed that Emperor William had induced Emperor Nicholas of Russia to sign a secret agreement to which he was to force the adherence of France in the perfection of an offen- sive and defensive alliance against England. The treaty was discovered and repudiated by a Russian minister. Failing in his attempt, the German emperor set upon himself the task of drawing England to his side against France and Russia. How well he thought he had succeeded in this may be gathered from a letter he wrote to President Wilson in 1914 in which he said King George had promised Prince Henry of Prussia, on July 29, 1914, that England would remain neu- tral in a war involving the Central Powers with France and Russia. To Blame For War Perhaps the most direct 9nd au- thoritive of the accusations against the German emperor and the Pan- Germans are contained in the pub- lished secret memorandum of Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, who was German ambassador at London at the outbreak of hostilities. The prince unequivocally placed the blame for the war on Germany, and for his frankness was imprisoned in a Siles- ian chateau, permanently expelled from the Prussian house of lords, which action was sanctioned by the emperor, and, finally, was exiled to Switzerland. The emperor, despite his previous expressions of good will for America gave vent to his anger against the UnitedvStates when it became evident no official action would be taken to stop the shipment of munitions and supplies to the Entent Allies by de- claring to the American ambassador, James W. Gerard, "I shall stand no nonsense from America after the war." Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert was born January 27, 1859, and be- came Emperor William II at the death of his father, Frederick III, June 15, 1888. He came out of the Univer- sity of Bonn fully prepared to enter the school of statecraft. Set to work in the government bureaus, he was early taught the routine of official business under the tutelage of the great Bismarck. Becomes Actual Leader At the death of his father, the im- perial throne devolved upon William II who was then but 29 years of age. Bismarck continued as chancellor but not for long. Though the great states- man had made every effort to instil his young pupil with his own ideas of government and diplomatic policies, the new emperor soon found that he disagreed with his grandfather's former close adviser in many impor- tant respects. In 1890 the disagree- ment of the two men reached a crisis, a rupture came, and Bismarck went. The relations between the two men remained strained for several years, but before Bismarck died peace was made between them. PHONE 1701 DAILY 2:00 3:30 7:00 S8:30 I V ab el moo PHONE 1701 DA1ILY 2:00 3:30 7:00 8:30 Thoroughly Renovated and Fumigated Today - Tomorrow TheD ISO Hun WM~tI'N" FEATURING George Fawcett-Dorothy Gish-George Slegman This is no picture of fancy-but a tact. The records of the United States Sv cret Service are filled with just such black and damnable schemi s as engineered by "The Hun Within" See for yourself the way the Hun-snakes work, see their cun- ning, and then rejoice in that swifter, alerter brain of Uncle Sam which checkmates them by night and by day A great picture. See it!i James MontgomeryBURTON Flagg ComedyT HOLMES "Hick Manhattan 'I i Majestic Orchestra SING! AND Community Singing REJOICE! Nightly and All Shows Sundays Wednesday and Thursday nA Charles Ray I -,& i ii/ - in.- "A Nine O'clock Town" He's a midnight devil in a nine o'clock town. He tried to "sell" his folks the ideas he formed in "the big town". He'll have you wishing him luck when he tried to resurrect the local " Emporiurn" He'll thrill you to the marrow when he wiggles out of the black- mailers frame-up, and he'll have you rocking with joy when he puts over the "big wallop". its some picture! FOUR NEW SONGS WILL APPEAR SOON Saturday and Sunday THOS. 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