AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

PRO-GERMAN PRESS,

NEW YORK, July 10

Rumcly, publisher of the “New York Mail,” has been arrested and charged with perjury. It is alleged that Rumcly swore the ncAvspaper is owned by Americans. The United States Government alleges it is OA\ y ned by the German Government, AA'hich bought the paper, in July, 1915, for 735,000 dollars, the purchase money being draAA ; n from the German Government accounts in various New York banks, It is alleged the accounts Avcrc in Bernstofff’S name. It is also alleged that Avhcn the “Mail” became a pro-German its circulation and advertising fell off, and the German Government paid the ‘‘Mail” an additional 620,000 dollars. The arrest has created a sensation. HEART-SICK GERMANS. EVER-DEFERRED VICTORY. LONDON, June 27. Reuter’s correspondent at Amsterdam says that a remarkable utterance during the debate on Dr. von Kuhlmann’s speech Avas the speech of the Progressive, Herr Naumann, Avhich Avas telegraphed fully to Amsterdam, by order of the Foreign Office, This honour is usually reserved for important Ministerial pronouncements. Naumann pleaded for a peace based on realisation of the impossibility of complete German victory, and said that hundreds of thousands of German soldiers thought similarly to Kuhlmann, and were sick of the promise of “victory next time.” 1 The situation in Germany appears obscure. First Kuhlmann makes a speech in the Reichstag, an officially considered utterance representing the opinions of the Throne Then the Kaiser, at the instigation of the Pan-Germans, forces a recantation. In the meantime, a powerful paper brings out an officiallyinspired article supporting Kuhlmann, and a speech which goes further than Kuhlmann’s most objectionable statement is allowed by officialdom to reach Amsterdam. The only explanation of these apparently diametrically opposed statements is that the Kaiser, avlio inspired Kuhlmann’s statement, because he begins to Avondcr whether peace i would not be a safer game for the I dynasty than the continuance of the I Avar, is at the same time bound to and j terrorised by the Pan-Germans, avlio | have Avith them the military command. I I-Io has been reminded that victorious and poAverful generals have at times deposed Emperors and that Pan-Ger-manism is the dynasty-making or breaking power. He, therefore, eenI surcs Kuhlmann for doing as he was told, and Avill cast him to the avolvcs as he cast Holiweg, who opposed the Pan-Gonnan policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. The Kaiser, though the “All-highest” is dependent on the support of his adherents. A threat of Pan-Germans to withdraw that support gets him quaking for his throne, and, at the same time he fears that the people, if the war goes on much longer, or goes ill, may Avin over the army as the Russian people did, and sweep him. and his Pan-Germans into the red gulf of re.volution. It is at his orders that the A 7 ossiche Zeitung publishes Bernard’s article, and at his orders that Naumann’s speech is telegraphed to Amsterdam. The Kaiser has got to the stage AA-hen he desires peace to save his skin, but the machine AA'hi* h the Hohenzollerns 'created has whirled him away, and he must stand in with the Pan-Gor-, mans for Avorld dominion or downfall.