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J. S. Indemnity
: 30 Bill ions if
J Germany Won
f Original Draft of Ex-Kaiser's
Peace Tornw Unearthed
i i Drawn Prior to Araerica'a
h Entry Into Wan
By GEORGE SELDES.
CMcm TrlrfVn Cabt. C.pxrlght, 1MI,
SI. Berlin, April 2l,-(By Wirtlcs..!
" (--What would 'have happened had
"'Germany been victorious? How
much Indemnity ; would France and
' England have had to pay? What
' would be America's punishment tor
furnishing the allies with arms?
- These Questions which have gamed
T, renewed international importance on
' account of Germany's refusal to sub
limit to the entente's present terms
;, tan now be answered.
V From thoroughly reliable sources
I learned that the original draft ot
"' the ex-kaiser's peace terms tor the
ii allies, made in 1917, just before
t America became a factor in the war
?. and Germany apparently was vic-
V torious on land and sea, has been un
."' earthed. The most amazing among
r the 12 points of the ex-Vaiser's own
terms was that the United States was
'i to be forced to pay Germany $30,-
000,000,000.
j; ; U. S. to Pay $30,000,000,000.
I!:' The question of indemnity was
;;' Vsolved by the cx-kaiser iu one short
;' paragraph reading thus: .
't "Great Britain will pav $.W,000,-
000,000, France wifl pay $40,000,000,
" 000 and the invited States will pay
;. tto.000,000.000." . . .
I rn,. ,iti(l in the. onsinal
' : f.erman manuscript, not niarks.J
. . francs or pounds.
Here are some of the most import
ant of the cx-kaiser's terms:
, "In addition to indemnity, the
allies must deliver enormous quail
' titles of raw materials to lestore
; German industry. America must
furnish its shave. 1
"Malta and t'yprus must become
German naval bases. The Azores
' islands wilt be taken from Portugal
; for naval bases.
; "Courland will be annexed to Ger
"V manv as crown lands.
"The whole Russian empire is to
I ' be divided into a series of independ
' ent states, furnishing buffer states
I for Germany.
i! France to Give up Briey.
i "France is to give up the entire
i Briey iron basin to Germany." (This
, noint is explained as making up for
' the famous German error in the
! peace terms after the war of 1370
when the boundary fixed included
m only a small part of the Briey basin.
V w hcreas, h was later discovered that
, W per cent of the iron remained in
, Trench possession.) '
l Two other pointy deal with minor
'!. changes in the French boundary.
It was proposed that one of the
ex-kaiser's sons become king of
.Tvoununia: (the ex-kaiser' first draft
Sf. mentioned Prince Joachim, the
. xoungest son and the late kaiserin's
favorite, who recently committed
suicide.) It is understood the e
, kaiser's advisers objected to this
clause, claiming Prince Joachim was
ignorant of diplomatic affairs. It
0 was suggested that Joachim's wife
could make up for his ignorance.
Later it was decided that Prince
"( 'Oscar' would get the Roumanian
throne. -
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! " Ellis Island Investigation
Washington, April 21. Investiga
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mittee of conditions at Ellis Island
! was urged in the house by Repre
sentative Dowell, republican, IoAva,
Ht read a letter from Governor
Kendall of Iowa, recommending a
rigid( inquiry and declaring he was
convinced the situation at the im
migration station was deplorable.
The governor charged that Mrs.
Lucia Leo, wife of Frank Leo, Dcs
Moines, died as a result of exposure
and neglect to which she was sub
jected on her arrival from Europe,
The letter said she was detained at
Ellis Island 10 days and "no provi
sion made for her comfort or jcon
venience." President Asked to Probe
Southern Railway Strike
Washincton, April 21. Invcstifta
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' and Northern Arkansas railway,
where a strike has been in progress
sine February, was asked of Prcsi
: dent Harding by representatives of
i; the seven leading railway employes'
;.' unions. The president was under-
"UQod to have been told that the road
jf had declined to abide by an award
. t of the railway labor board and that
1 provisions of the transportation act
-were not being enforced.
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ABTICII
President Wilson never left my
House conference, during the war
itself in my mind that the world
it trained a great eaucaior inu cuccuuve.
It was President Wilson, who,, before we entered the war, law
that the only hope of the allies lay in achieving unity of command
It was President Wilson who advocated this policy when we gained
the right to a voice in th military councils of those who were fighting
tHe l7 "wa PPsUl'ent Wilson who resisted the strong urging of some
of his American advisers, and of the British and French military authori
ties to permit our American soldiers to be jused merely as replacement
troops for the allied armies.
It was President Wilson who in
sisted that the American forces
must be organized as American
army units, under American com
mand, and who sustained General
Pershing in carrying this policy in
to effect at the earliest possible no
nicnt.
It was President Wilson who con
tended that America must be in
position on land and water to carry
the war through to victory, even if
the allies were forced to abandon
it.
Stay Through Till Victory.
This extreme possibility he en
visaged, and when we entered the
war he had resolved in his soul tmt
whatever might befall Great Brit
ain, France, Italy or Japan, the
United States would . stick until
autocracy was beaten. It was this
resolute purpose which made his
leadership so inspiring to those of
us who served with him through
days which were always anxious and
not infrequently discouraging.
In matters affecting the navy he
was as wise and as forceful as m
military matters.
He.saw at oi;ce the vital import
ance of making egsess for the U
boat difficult it not impossible. If
it was not practicable to go mto
the rat holes and kill all the rats,
the same end might be attained by
slopping the holes up. or failing even
that, bv setting traps so thickly
around the holes that rats attempting
to get by would run serious peril
of being caught.
Wilson's Genius in War.
Newton Baker could tell many an
incident to illustrate the almost in
spired genius of Woodrow Wilson in
dealing with army problems. I have
no doubt he will some day. Nat
urally I am mote familiar with his
gift of strategy as displayed in the
solving of naval problems. Before
I relate some, incidents from my own
experience which throw light upon
this phase of the former president's
many sided character. I want to out
line more fully the general situation
and circumstances which form the
basis for the assertions I have made
concerning his military leadership in
the opening paragraphs of this ar
ticle.
Almost immediately following our ,
declaration of war we began hear
ing from Great Britain and France
suggestions . as to the wise course
W - . - U . . .1 kfttn
lor US lO pursue ui sutu aumu
as we might, be able to give.
' Obviously we had no ready-made,
trained and disciplined army to send
overseas, at least not of such strength
as to be a considerable factor in the
situation. It was not unnatural, nor
wholly unreasonable that the allies
should suggest the best plan for us
to follow would be to place such
forces as we could raise, under allied
command, 'where association with
the trained and veteran troops of
France and Great Britain, they
would find support and learn more
readily the lessons that the fighting
man must know.
President Vetoes Plan.
Admiral Sims, together with some
other Americans, were inclined to
agree with the allies that this plan
was the one we should adopt.
But not so the president He dis
missed the proposal as -soon -as -he
heard of it General Pershing was
equally emphatic in repudiating it
If General Pershing had recommendr
ed it, I believe President Wilson
would have been tempted most
strongly to, recall him. The presi
dent believed America could raise
and train an expeditionary force big
enough and quickly enough to take
its equal place in the field with the
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ottice, and l never leu tne i0
years, without the reflection shaping
bad lost a great military leader when
veteran armies and do its full share
to bring victory. He had faith in
American capacity, and he knew that
Americans would never fight so well
under alien leadership as they would
under the command of their Own of
ficers. But this determination on the pres
ident's part to keep the American
forces independent neither prevented
the use of Amrican troops in the
brigades of British and French
armies during the days while our
strength and assembling, nor the
strong urging of America to give the
independent armies of the allied and
associated powers the unified com
mand which was essential to their ef
fective co-operation and co-ordination
.
Put Foch at Head.
As soon as our strength in France
had reached proportions which the
president felt gave us just right to
speak, he joined with Lloyd George
in putting through the plan Jo make
General Foch the head of the allied
and associated armies. "
The president followed the devel
opment of the military and naval
strategy of the contending nations
with keenest and most critical inter
est before we entered the war.
I recall his saying to me on one
occasion:
"Daniels, why don t the British
'convoy their merchant ships, and
thus protect them from the sub
ma'rinesj" .
He came back to this question fre
quently. He could not see the wis
dom of the British plan of dispersion,
although there were some able Ameri
can naval officers who approved it
To hfm it seemed a false' strategy.
This opinion became a conviction
with him as the sinkings continued
and the situation grew daily more
serious.
Strongly Favors Convoy.
"This theory of reducing the dan
ger by sailing ships separately, has
been demonstrated to be wrong," he
would say. "Why now, with their
distressing experience, do they hesi
tate to adopt the convoy system?"
Finally the convoy system was
adopted. It took the American ex
peditionary force to France without
the loss of a man. on an American
transport through enemy action. It
justified in the eyes of the naval au
thorities of three great- nations the
wisdom of the scholarly idealist,
whose geniua for practical sug
gestion never ceased to be cause for
wonder and admiration on the part
of those who were closely associated
with him.
His brilliant mind gave further
evidence of its gift for .strategy in
his contention from the day we en
tered the war that the only way to
beat the U-boat warfare of Germany
was to bar the U-boats from access
to waters traversed by allied shipping.
He was willing to run tremendous
risks and to suffer heavy losses if
there were a possibility of destroy
ing the U-boat nests.
Speaking to the officers and crew
of the Pennsylvania, he said; .
"We are. hunting hornets all ovef
the farm and letting the nest alone.
None of as know .how to go to the
nest and crush it, and yet I despair
of hunting for hornets all over the
sea when. I know where the nest is,
and I know that the nest is breeding
hornets as fast as I can find them.
I am willing, for my part and I know
you are willing, for I know the stuff
you ,arc made of I am willing to
sacrifice balf the navy of Great Brit
ain and we. together have to crush
the nest because if we crush it $he
war is won." - .
The British admiralty, however,
was inclined to be exceedingly cau
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"Every time ,we have suggested
anything to 'the British admiralty,"
he said, talking on the deck of the
Pennsylvania in the summer of 1917,
"the reply has come back that vir
tually amounts to this: That it
had never been done in that way.
I felt like saying, 'Well, nothing was
ever done so systematically as noth
ing is being done now.' Therefore
I should like to see something uit
usual happen, something that never
has been done before. There is no
other way to win."
It was on this occasion that lie
invited the youngest as well as the
oldest officers, in the navy to sug
gest to him possible ways of doing
the big and bold and unprecedented
thing that might bring victory.
"I am not saying," he declared,
"that 1 do not expect tle admirals
to tell us what to do, but 1 am say
ing that I want the youngest and
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most modest youngster in the service
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he knows what it is.""" j
"Please leave out of your vocabu
lary, the word 'prudent,' " he said
to tne naval officers. "Do not stop
to think about what is prudent for
a moment. Do the thing that, is
audacious to the utmost point' of
tisk and daring, because that is ex
actly what the other side does uot
understand." .
The president had sized up cor
rectly the enemy mind rigid, con
ventional, .regimented. , In . order to
surprise and bewilder him it was
necessary only to do the thing that
was daringly irregular, contrary to
established rules.
Soon after the president made his
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commauder-in-chief of all the vessels
afloat on both sides of the Atlantic,
was dispatched to Europe with in
structions to convince the British ad
miralty of the overshadowing neces
sity of constructing the North sea
barrage.
Failing the possibility- of pers.uad
ing the British admiralty to join in
a combined attack upon the hornets'
nests, the president proposed the
stretching of a screen that would
catch the horuets before they scat
tered along the' British and French
coasts and-the lanes of ocean traffic.
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plans for the northern mine barrage,
which did so much to shatter .:.e
morale of the German navy, whose
mutiny marked the beginning of the
enemy's collapse.
During the-war years the president
iften came unannounced to the Navy
department to consult, suggest and,
I think, frequently with 'the desire
to encourage and stimulate. This
latter service was invaluable to -us.
When he could not come because of
pressure of affairs, he would send
us a typewritten query, or memo
randum, bearing the initials "V. VV."
Those "W. XV." notes never had a
spare word, and they showed, the
same: clearness and vision which
John Hav tells us Lincoln had when
e would go over to see Stanton in
the dark days of the civil war.
Fsesident Wilson's interest was
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had the keenest tiaval instinct. He
was born with it. When Thomas
Woodrow Wilson was a boy before
he dropped the "Thomas" he chose
for himself a naval career.
fllis boyhood was spent on the
banks of a river, and he loved boat
ing next to books, or at times even
more than books, lie had a pen
chant for sailing; he loved sea tales,
and his ambition was to follow Jones
and Farragut and Dewey.
Thomas Woodrow's father, a
scholarly Presbyterian preacher of
the old school, vetoed the naval ca
reer. When the chance came to go
to Annapolis, he said in substance:
"No; you are not meant for the sea,
my son; letters, books, statesman
ship for, you."
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stroyed many 'precedents and won
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(Another article by former Secretary
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Charges 'Against Landis
In House Will Be Dropped
Washiugton, April 21. Impeach-
-ment charges against Federal Judge
Landis of Chicago, growing out of
his acceptance of the post of supreme
arbitrator of base ball, will be
dropped in the house unless new
charges are made on the floor, Rep
resentative Dyer, republican, chair
man of the subcommittee in charge
of the matter, announced today. The
charge were filed by Representative
Welty. democrat, of Ohio at the last
session but is not a member of the
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