ETBOTN& LEDGER-FBIlJAlMDL'PECtA SATOBDAX, SEPTEMBER 2S, m f f1 'I s i m- i ' It i t " it&'idWwprii'iii1 1 i' i ' i GERMANY 'SHE NEXT .0 &EPUBUC ? (By CARL, WACKERMAN "In the Dual Monarchy there arc many freedom-loving people who arc longing for iniwi. ti, mni nnfi iriiMjf nnwerful democratic force among the Teutonic. Am is located in Budapest. I know of no city outside of the United States where fjf pcopio nave sucn iovc ui aiccuuiu. Copyright. 1K1T, George II. Doran Corapanj. r I? -M ?1 fc)u. Vffc, The Reason Why the Teutonic Allies Present an Unbroken Diplomatic Front Against the World Is That the Military Leaders of Ger many, Seeing an Early Victory Was Impos sible, Set to Work to Accomplish the Complete Subjugation of All the Central Powers The People of Hungary, However, Are Far From c Being Admirers of the Prussian Junker Caste, Ackerman Soon Discovered, and Are Guard ing Their Prerogatives Jealously That Is the Real Cause of the Frequent Uprisings in v the Dual Monarchy i '. . ), The German Socialists Grow Restive TTtOR a greamnny months tho Socialist Deputies of the Prussian Diet have been demanding election reforms. Their demands were so insistent that more than a year ago the Chancellor, when ho read tho Kaiser's address from the throne room in tho residence palace In Berlin to the Deputies, promised election reform? in Prussia after the war. But during last summer tho Socialists began to demand immediate election reforms. To further embarrass the Chancellor and the Government, the National Liberals made the same demands, knowing all the time that if the Government ever attempted It they could suing the Reichstag majority against the proposal by technicalities. v Throughout the summer months tho Government could not hush up tho incessant discussion of war aims. More than ono newspaper was suppressed for demanding peace or for demanding a statement of tho Government's position in regard to Belgium and northern France. Tho peace movement within Germany grew . by leaps and1 bounds. The Socialists demanded immediato action by the Government. The Conservatives, the National Liberals and tho Catholic party wanted peace, but only the kind of a peace which Germany could force upon the Entente. The Chancellor and other German leaders tried again throughout the summer and failed to get the outside world interested in peace, but at this timo the English and French attacks on the Somme were engaging tho attention and the resources of the whole world. Before these conflicting movements within Germany can be understood one must know something of the organization of Ger many in wartime. When the military leaders of Germany saw that the possi bility of capturing Paris or of destroying London was small and that a German victory which would fasten Teutonic peace terms on tho rest of tho world was almost impossible they turned their eyes to Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Balkans and Turkey. Friedrich Naumann, member of the Progressive party of the Reichs tag, wrote a book on "Central Europe," describing a great nation stretching from the North Sea to Bagdad, including Germany, all of Austria-Hungary, parts of Serbia and Rumania and Turkey, with Berlin as tho capital. It was toward this goal which the Eaiser turned the forces of Germany at his command. If Germany could not rule the world, if Germany could not conquer the nine nations which the Director of the Post and Telegraph had lined up on the second of August, 1914, then Germany could at least conquer tho Dual Monarchy, the Balkans and Turkey, and even under these circumstances come out of the war a greater nation than she entered it. But to accomplish this purpose one thing had to be assured. That was the control of the armies and navies and the foreign policies of theso Governments. The old Kaiser - Franz Josef was a man who guarded everything he had as jealously iUJ BHB 111 jf QMIBj yuoMMk uHr aflfwaMKBaaHDI i X?-3f Maw j??.vbbXXKjb V nBiaHBIHfei ImSir 4iinS1 SSHU Jrss&z' $KmLi Kir flySCJmv im! I wA -W$m& IS TZWm-i Mi v. MKSBBBm& iTTf"v &wmwmvim IMP aiwP4iSiPM . : ...r. . ss RVHSflsa in i i n 'MMBJIBffWSSWSSSBSSSjSBYi JV fAR jKJMMaK3SflHBJSJBBJSjSJBBJBBHBBBBBBBBBBJBSJBBBJB Km 'nPWCSMB Budapest. I know of no city outside ot the United Sta J where the people havosuch lore of freedom nnd whtre q2L J opinion piays sucn a nig roie. j Budanost. even in wartimes, is ono of tho mmf am-,., v eiUca in Eurone. and Hungary, even as Into as Inst rw. . not contaminated by Prussian ideas. I saw Rusatnn .t.. ' ii in . r""u"n v n ...nlbtnr 4lirmicTli iTin nfrpnta nnrl rntnrvltnr. ...111. it. .. ....., ...... - .........s niul inB majgjj , f ihn ITnfol IHta in German. "WHnrn ia tJin Tlolf.ie.f?ii .. ." Vila hrnA nnrl went on nhout his luminpca rofrnlotin i.. . ?" Boldicrs nnd people. American Consul General Coffin infornd& that there were 7000 Allied subjects In Budapest who wPrr!! J turbed. English nnd French nro much more popular than GerT Onn ilnv nn mv first visit In BuHnnret I n:l(Pr1 n nn1i. . e IV.. TTnl 17ttv in fZttrmart "VJUnrn t V. TJlt..i. .. .. ' went on about his business regulating the trS ' rner. Then I asked him, "haU In EnglUh snTLS'' his head and tho street corner. Then I asked him, naif In EnglUh and Z in French, whero tho Parliament was. With a broad smilo ho said, "Ah, Monsieur, votls, this fa- your rignt, vjs a vi. ot a wora oi uerman would he sptak fl After tho Allied offensive hocrnn on tbn Rmi tt,. .t . il of Von Tirpitz, assisted by Princo von Buelow, started an nff JSt against the Chancellor with renewed vigor. This time tlnl dotermined to oust him at all costs. They sent emissariej'toT J Rhino Valley, which is dominated by" the Krupp ammunition facterkU'l Those emissaries becan By attacklncr tho Chnncpllnp'n i,hii.,j. aI tho United States. They pointed out that Germany couldllr possibly win tho war unless she defeated England, and tf ; easy for any German to seo that tho only way England conin! 1 "By one stroko of the pen Germany succeeded In conquering Austria-Hungary. At the samo timo the Bulgarian and Turkish TO armies were placed at tho disposal of Von Hindenburg. as a baby guards his toys. At one time when it was suggested to tho nged monarch that Germany and Austria-Hungary could establish a great kingdom of Poland as a buffer nation if ho would only give up Galicia as one of the States of this kingdom, ho replied in his childish fashion: "What, those Prussians want to take another pearl out of my crown?" In June the Austro-Hungarian General Staff conducted an offensive against Italy in the Trentino with more success than tho Germans had anticipated. But tho Austrians had not calculated upon Russia. In July General Brussiloff attacked the Austrian forces in the neighborhood of .Lutsk, succeeded in persuading or bribing a Bohemian army corps to desert and started through the Austrian positions like a flood over sloping land. Brussiloff not only took several hundred thousand prisoners, ho not only broke clear through the Austrian lines, but he thoroughly demoralized, the Austrian army as a unit in the world war. Von Hindenburg, who had been made Chief of the German General Staff, was com pelled to send thousands of troop3 to tho Volhyninn battlefields to stop the Russian invasion. But Von Hindenburg did not look with any degree of satisfaction upon the possibility of such a thing happening again, and informed the Kaiser that he would continue as Chief of tho General Staff only upon condition that ho bo made chief of all armies allied to Germany. At a conferenco at Great Headquarters at Pless, in Silesia, whero offices were moved from Franco as soon as tho Field Marshal took charge, Hindenburg was mado tho leader of all tho armed forces in Central Europe. Thus by one stroke, really by the aid of Russia, Germany suc ceeded in conquering Austria-Hungary and in taking away from her command all of the forces, naral and military, which she had. At the same time, the Bulgarian and Turkish armies were placed at the disposal of Von Hindenburg. So far, so good for the Prussians. But there wero still somo independent forces left within the Central Powers, Hungary was not content to do the bidding of Prussia. Hungarians wero not ready to live under orders from Berlin. Even as late as a few months ago, when the German Minister of the Interior called a conference in Berlin to mobilize all tho food within tho Central Powers, tho Hungarians refused to join a scheme which would rob them of food they had jealously guarded annd saved since the beginning of tho war. In the Dual Monarchy there are many freedom-loving people who are longing for a deliverer. Hungary at one time feared Russia, but only because of the Czar. The real and most power ful democratic force among the Teutonic Allies is located there in A scene during an anti-German riot in Budapest. A leader in the attack against the pro-Germans during the spring is being arrested. attacked was from the seas; that as long ns England had fori fleet or her merchant ships she could continua the war and contWj to supply tho Allies. It was pointed out to the ammunition makmlffl also that they wero already fighting the United States; that tM United States was sending such enormous supplies to the Enteatn that unless the submarines were used to stop these supplies Gh-J many would most certainly be defeated on land. And it wmv explained that a defeat on land meant not only the defeat German army, but the defeat of the ammunition interests. (CONTINUED MONDAY) it TO1M of UhJB FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF RUSSIAN ARMY'S DEBACLE HOOVER BEGINS ELECTRIC SIGN CAMPAIGN CopyrUht, Underwood Se Underwood. jr vi. iiBk tJMSmJm iX $'?'" r i. 'X Ti'Pn pnnj? VTTT?c;r,cj wtrn nTTirpmn nTTAnTTWri Tin VFTEHS 1 Th, photo8raAr?h troop. ,n X i JKiSBmJVL " X SBHSS&SJS'aS 1 GaHcta. .hows how Pjt4J 1 A JPHK f '!g)J CfnlFXAX ,ff,toMfe3& 3S? & gff afrfoVhUt J rboto (ram Food Administration. FOOD'CONSERVATION SIGN IN JERSEY CAPITAL. of the Hoover administration', electric advrtl.emnt ha. been erected at Trenton. iveriUine cewpanle. are ontln the signs, palatine and keeping them In repair. MEW POSTER APPEAL CALCULATED TO WIN NEW RECRUITS FOR THE - FOC-D CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN CoMrrlf ht. Unflerwood Vrivr' .COimAOEQIIS OBTPinnn BRTCIfB Tn Hfr-iLr TiitnarATf KETIIEAT Pantaln larravvt n DiiaalaH AWfAAH . 4.W a. il d.iltt. VXvltlah BW11 mxm that did uch splaiidlcT work In heMHataf 14c ii onotlW 452Bff i .'. mtrucunf fMten mmmm mmm m, w j " Ht"j 4 ; -.," , - ,H pt m r&Jh!k if. -. 'r du. IV .m-ZSr 1VC&M r, HB' jl Sk ,f W V.-lwijTfJ . iff J '.J -' I'lZl . A. .- . -iAf7-' ... a 1 1. , hf ?y "' r. T - r.r ' r - ?, - 1 T t '- s." v. - 'Aifi t V m aHola, l hown In.tructln
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