The Kaiser's Dream.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 October 1917, Page 4

The Kaiser's Dream.

HOW THE WAR WAS PLANNED. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Mr Morgenthau, a former American Ambassador to Turkey, has made some remarkable disclosures to the World. He says that there is direet evidence that the Kaiser willed the war, and caused it when it suited his purpose, and when his preparations were made. " Paliavincini, the Austran Ambassador to Turkey, told me, on August 18, 1914,'' says Mr Morgenthan, '' that the Austran Emperor informed him in May that war was inevitable. Baron Wangenheim, the German Ambassador to Turkey, in an outburst of enthusiasm, after the arrival of the Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles, told me that a conference was held in Berlin early in July, 3914, whereat the date of the war was fixed. The Kaiser pressed for the conference, at which Wangonheim, Moltke, Tirpitz, and a few selected leaders of German finance and industry were also present. The Kaiser asked thom if they were ready for war. All replied in the affirmative except the financiers, who said they must have a fortnight wherein to sell securities and arrange loans. Thereafter financiers were feverishly and secretly busy, while the army marked time. All the great Stock Exchanges experienced an acute degression, as the German-owned stocks were quietly pushed into the market. Wengenheim. told me that the next time Germany would be even more far-sighted, and have at least five years' supplies of copper and cotton before striking. Morgenthan later learned that if Germany was victorious she intended to attack America on the ground that she supplied munitions to the Allies, and enforce an indemnity, making Germany the richest nation in the world. I have heard the sum fixed at 50,000,000,000 marks. The Kaiser was for years obsessed with the dream of being the centre of a great moving picture, directing and controlling the destinies of the -world. Prince Henry was sent to America to consolidate German strength in the United States. _ Germany 's mastery of the situation in Turkey was so complete that she dictated the postponement of Turkey's entry into the war until the powerful wireless plant at Constantinople was completed and the guns and munitions brought to Turkey.''