THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918. Ne Kaiser Bribed 3 Greedy Merchants 3 Ca a aaa ee an] 9 HAT ihe American Mann | o acturers' Record calls the most damning and damn able record of Germar wickedness ever discovered is the confession of August Thyssen a Ger | man steel manufacturer of inter. national renown, which has been re- printed by the Record in pamphiel | cont form. It.shows that im 1912 the] Kaiser's plans for a world war bad | been so far advanced that he took in. to his confidence some of the greal financial and industrial magnates of | the Fatherland, explained to them | his purpose and asked if they were prepared to finance the war. He pro-| mised them that the war would be over in 1915, and In return for the loans he required he was willing te | give them great tracts of territory | and business opportunities in various parts of the British Empire. Accord ing to Thyssen his Promises wer: specific. « Certain famous English estates were definitely allotted tc various German millionaires. Thys. | sen himself was promised 30,000 acres of land in Australia and a loan | of $750,000 from the Deutsche Bank at 3 per cent. to develop the pro. perty. A syndicate was formed for the exploitation of Canada with a capital of $100,000,000, half of! which was to be supplied by the Government, This story of Thyssen's is in many ' respects the most remarkable that] the war has produced. In the United ; States, Senator Owen observed that it had been printed in England, in the United States, in Switzerland | and Japan, and not a word of denial | had come from Thyssen. This may | be due to the fact that the author fis | either in another world or in jail. | The Record does not mention the circumstances in which the document "was prepared, whether it was pub: | 'lished in Germany or whether Hert | Thyssen went to Switzerland or some | other neutral country in order to ease himself of so much perilous stuff, He says in beginning his confession that he writes for the purpose of opening | the eyes of Germans, 'especially of | the business community," to facts, | In another part of his document he! says that his own plant has been tak- | en over by the Government at a price that means confiscation, hecause he refuses any longer to subscribe to the war loans, : He says that the Hohearollerns had come to the conclusion In 1912 that unless there were a great war the German military system wold bg broken tip, and that witli its enllapad would have come the nll of Hohenzollern authority. then, to save the power of the Kalser and perhaps of the Crown Prince, that the war was planned. '[Til¢, of ¢ourse, is Herr Thyssen's gusse. Ho knows because he was presaat at several of the conferences, tliat Bethmanu-tioll wegg had meetings with a large ber of the leading German bu: men in which lie explained to them that a war had becn decided on, and that it would profil Germans to sup- port it, « To hs own cific promises ory Chancellor to £0 Ge men. Some wore to U in India; others rpocial ada; others tracts 'nn A soothers, again, mansion It i» curious tha! thy pl to bo found in The famous sayine, foe, and one alone, Engl: takes .on. now signhicauce, . Tha Chancellor's promises were later on confirmed by the Kalger, On three occasions he addressed inrge ptivate gatherings in 1512 and 1513. He was even more profuse in what he promised than his agent. Ho said that he was pledging nothing that could not be redesnted, and més: of his hearers agreed thai tho inves!- - ment Was most inviting. So, instead of hurling again al the head of tae War Lord the imprecations that rise naturally to the lips, let us remem- ber that the business kings and cap- tains of industry of Germany will \ the ingly entered the conspiracy with him, His goal was an increase of his power. Theirs was an increase 'n their, fortunes. The idea of patriot- ism did not enter the heads of any of them, They could make money by 3 4 { he has the war, out of dead German soldiers, as out of dead British and French and American and Belgian soldiers, So why should the: hesitate? ae approval of controlled the se, the mach- tion which led - ahd the events assassination of uke, when they will make an- and Germany on her adveniurs .to to make war pay. The 10 had acquiesced in the contributed cheerfully fe dozen war loans, | of them contracted the king out of the window were asked for further especially after the war inued over 1916. Herr Thyssen refused to keep up his. payments, With moving sympathy for himself he mentions that he was blackmailed by the Government, He resisted, for habit of Ic when they a | as a business man he had come to the conclusion that he had put bis money on the wrong horse, aud now he has been ruined, However, like Samson, brought down with him a mighty house. The Hohenzollerns share his fate. Nature's Variety Shop. You may think Alaska is a hard geography lesson just because there | are 590,884 square miles, but really its the easiest lesson in the book, be- cause, no matter what you say, it's almost sure to be true. If you talk about the:coldest wea~ ther you can imagine--fifty or sixty below zero, say---when land and wat- er are frozen to iron and one's breath | crackles in the deathlike stillness and hangs on the trail like clouds of smoke from a moving engine--that's Alaska. Or if you talk about balmy, even-tempered weather when chil {| dren paddle barefooted in sun-warm- ed brooks and the land is a luscious, gay-colored berry field, or if you try to imagine a heavy, baking heat like that of the tropics, with a vivid, stif- ling riot of foliage--that's Alaska. Describe a vast, tomb-gray waste «that's Alaska. Picture a gayly gleaming landscape, where the inde- fatigable sun works the clock around ----that's Alaska, Brag about cabbages which weigh as much as a two-year-old child, and even though you do it merely for lit- erary effect, it will be true. Namo over most of the kinds of | animals that you ever heard ¢ith bears and foxes to order in every color bul green -- and your mark will probably be at least 90 per cont. And don't forget the 'oolakan or canu's fish, which is so fat that it melts in the frying pan like a lump of butter and when dried and provid- ed with a wi will burn like a can- dle (that's he you can remember its name) and with whose odor no slaughter house or glue factory can compete, Of course you knew about the gold. And as for coal, just draw a big cube, like a flat-topped apartment house; then in the right-hand corner draw a little eube, about the size of a corner yne, and the little eube will be marked, "Untouched resour- cos." RK#thlene B, Winter, in World Outlook. rot: A Brilliant Carcer, Unusnal interest attached to the conferring at the University of To- ronfo convocation, of the degree of Doctor of Public Health upon Lt -Col, George Nasmith, director of the civie laboratories, Toronto. Lt.-Col. Na» ith, who returned from service in where he was in charge of the r safeguarding the health of a British my corps, completed the writing of his examinations in April, and is understood to have pass- ed brilllantly. It bas meant a lot of hard plugging, inasmuch as he has also, since his return, written a valu~ abte book as to the army sanitation work. Lt.-Col. Nasmith is now en- titled to the very distinctive letters, O.M.G., M.A, Ph.I¥, D.Sc. (honorary degree, conferred a year ago), and D.P.H. He is 40 years of age, born and educated in Toronto, and gradu ated from the University in 1900, f An Historic Farm. In 1812-15, when there was a brush with the Americans, the priests of the Quebec seminary gave over some farm land for the train- ing of French-Canadian young men. More than a century later, the priests of this same seminary offered this self-same farm, at Maiberets, on the Beauport shore, to the military for the training of young men who will join the Canadian Officers' Training Corps, organized under Major Paquet for college boys and Laval studgnts. Among the recruits is Eugene Cao- guette, a nephew of! Archbishop | Mathieu. "RIVALS ABROAD--FRENCH PASTRY AND AMERICAN PIES wT - ESE The Something-to-Sell People get into contact with the want-to-buy people through the clas- sified ' advertising colu 5 If you wanted to be advertised in the turn to these colur people act on th lghg 1ist of interes ; something which would naturally columns you would inevitably rtain what was offered. Other ulse, so that there are always a s of the classified. = p ------------------------------ American soldiers in France ure nog without their luxuri vendors of French pas thelr spare pennies are towns where they are quartered. ire shown in the second United ant » ont boys that for the first time pie bas a rival A A A NAAN NNN NENENN PR a esha INVESTIGATING CHARGES INSPECTOR AT DELTA TO PROBE ALLEGATIONS. People Are Indignant, but "Kee kuk' (Craig Miner) Says Tho All Know Fish are Diseased. Brockville Recorder Delta, Aug. 1 and summer resi t to be much exercised charges made by a sumaner using the pseudonyn of "Keoku who stated in the New York that the bass and pike in the ertey Lakes w diseased throug! pollution of th local fishermen tik the exception of a very few cases, they have never ca eased fsh and that the facts 1 sented by 'Keokuk are much ¢x- aggerated and reflect great discredit on the lakes. The fisheries ment es at Torox added to the ir st being the ease. 1 ir or ficially and there port will mn and complete tion of t porar over ar e pr » here recently of to, has taken ir is here ulate Real Teta? "Keokuk Editor, with the ral scenes of the boys ¢€ fal war picture, "Ame Ont. On July Sun was p writer On mented on same date in t ville, 8ir York the with you, Yours 201 July W. 29th, letter refe 100A clipping - of Delta Somebody has been 130th st Charges Are ilepeated. nieationed TRENCH PASTRY FOR- AMERICAN SOLDIERS ¥ CommeTY PUBL. NRORMAT aM 1's Answer," just released. Miner dire these res ul tter by | concludes his July 24 you com- in an editorial. On he York Sun gO, may at the pike diseased requently Editor can't Dear BEditor--'% verse from , RO this knows the fish th g all masters truly, CRAIG treet, New feel right. night. MINER. Just York, tastes like t beat. grub "Then e the girl?" Min A erred i 3 Sun | marry to by Mr. New York 21, and which he under the pseu- k,' merely Te 8 pgainst thet J. C. y lakes 'and ad- | when contemplate ab-| His trips to ti Bever- | tain unt for r Capt. grounds, those The Bratiano, the conniry acquittal H. pointed senior ern tenant-colonel, a lot 1 I've whirl was 5 in the way of dainty articles of food. around the camps and in the streets of the ywying the fancy pasfry of the French women It is said by the PA NANI A NIN NEN NY ts anglers how to reach 'Some letter, : a good thing if they did journey ley lakes notwithstanding the bass and pike are diseased. 8 y is akin to a sharpshooter of In the Editor's Mail Bag. "I can never tell whuther the Seripture to that it is wrong to have two wives "Sure! No man can serve Dear Editor--Advice me. I don't can't 1 moan and sigh. is dry, 1 can't smoke or drink. My ink. got cold feet. 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