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PAGE TWO DAILY ARDMOREITE Saturday, September 1, 1917. SKITS OF BRITISH PARLEY BEFORE AND SUM WAR ARE TOLD KAISER IS REPRESENTED AS MAKING SINCERE EFFORT TO KEEP ENGLAND AS FRIEND, BUT OVERRIDDEN BY WAR PARTY HALDANE IS DEFENDED. London. Sept. 1. Important revela tion which form a valuable chapter In the history of British and German ne gotiations during the eight years be fore the war will be published by the Manchester Guardian today. The rev elations are a detailed account of the negotiations which Kiohard Burdon Hal dane (now Viscount Haldane) then sec retary for war, conducted with Emper or William, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German imperial chancellor, Admir al von Tirpitz. minister of the German navy, and other German leaders, includ ing striking conversations. Haldane was the foremost student of Germany among the British public men, and his career has been a storm center since the war, the gist of the at'acka upon him being based on a charge Ihat he knew of Germany's designs, but had reassured his fellow countrymen that ull was well, and on his statement that "Germany is my spiritunl home." The Manchester Guardian prefaces the article with the following: "We hold no brief for Lord Haldane Indeed, on the whole question of secret diplomacy a diplomacy so secret that its workings In even very vital partic ulars are not always known beyond the bounds of an inner cabinet we hold a view quite different from that which he anil too many statesmen have been accustomed to act upon." Haldane Visited Germany. Haldane visited Germany in Septem ber, 1906. as minister of war. He was working in close connection with Sir Kdward Grey, the foreign minister. He took part, first, in conversations with the French general staff. The Idea of these conversations was that if Ger many attacked France, Great Britain would le prepared to give militmy as sistance and help hold the frontier op poslte Bi Igium Haldane was convinced that assist ance could not be given France within a reasonable time, and bent all hU thoughts toward organization for ex treme rapidity in mobilization and transjrt. which meant complete ie-or-ganizatiou of the British army. Kmperor William read a speech Hal dane made to London Germans and in vited him to attend the German army maneuvers. Haldane was anxious to get useful information about the Ger man organization, so he accepted. On Ills way he visited King Edward, who was stopping at Marlenbad. King Kdward Kebels. 'lie then saw King Ferdinand of Bulgaria." says the Guardian, "who was worrying King Edward with a pro ject that, if rumor is true, boded no good to Greece. King Edward verj properly did not want to talk politics with Ferdinand. He told Lord HalcVne Ihat he must put an end to all of Ferdinand's conversation with himself who could 'act only through my minis ter'." Haldane. not desiring to hear Ferd inand's projects against Greece, talked ho volubly on other topics that Ferdin and could not get In a word edgewise. The Guardian then relates a story of an English author of how Emperor William at the grand review galloped up to Haldane. who stood with a top hat and frock coat in his carriage, and said: "A splendid machine J hve in tills army, Mr. Haldane. Isn't It so? What could I do without it, situated as I am lietween the Russians and the French? But the French are your allies, so I beg your pardon." Haldane replied that if he were in the emperor's plaoi he would feel quite comfortable." Haldane and two assistants went thoroughly into the organization of the Geunan war office, tubbing some of the officials the wrong way. They, the Ger man officials, thane, I. howc. :-. Lieu tenant General von Moltke. chief of the general staff, in a conversation asking Haldane to put whatever questions he liked Surprise Keenest. "In that case." replied Haldane, "I shall call for the plans for an invasion of England." Von Moltke replied, "We have not one In the building," to which Haldane. looking out of the window toward the admiralty, said, "Perhaps they are ;here." Von Moltke admitted that they were there and that they were very good plans, too. The article gives for the first time l-'mperor William's negotiations for the Bagdad railway agreement. While visit ing Windsor Castle (England) in No vember, 1907, Emperor William took Haldane aside the first evening of his visit and said how sorry he was there was so much friction over the Bagdad railway. "My answer was we wanted a gate to protect India from troops coming down the new railway." said Haldane. Asked what he meant by a gate, Hal dane replied that he meant control of the fartherest off section of the rail way the one nearest the Persian gulf. To which Emperor William replied: "I will give you the gate." War Part) Blocks Kaiser. The foreign office regarded the ne gotiations favorably, but it was consid ered necessary to bring in Fiance and Russia, whose interests also were in volved. A conference In Berlin of the four powers was arranged, with the support of Emperor William, but it was defeated at Berlin on the ground that an agreement with the Bagdad railway question included, was no business of Buss la. This, says the article, was the . tut and clearest indication regarding the certain fact that the German foreign policy that the emperor was not quite master in his own house and that of ficial Berlin was divided Into two par ties, one anxious for n working agree ment between England. France and Germany, and another, not yet avowed a war parly, regarding all these at tempts hopeless or dangerous, or Imth. Then and for some time afterwards, Emiieror William belonged to the first party and genuinely was anxious for friendly relations with England. The crown prince, with Admiral von Tirpitz and the general staff, and prob ably Prince von Buelow, belonged defi nitely to the second. The )arty division ts-came much sharper, and later was persisted In by Germany, even after the war Isgan. Haldane had German sympathizers in the same sens. Unit Emperor William had sympathizers who believed it was for the good of the world that England and Germany should come to an under standing. The key to Haldanes whole policy was while preparing against the eventual triumph of the anti-English party in Germany, to as far as pos sible strengthen those in Germany dis posed to be friendly. Says Kaise,- o lKar s, hemer "The vulgar idea of the kaiser as a n-ep and consistent schemer," says th artirle, "is almost certainly wrong. He is, before everything else, a oser, an actor. He desires, bejore anything else to cut a figure on the world stage. He is always asking himself, 'Am I or am I not of the stuff of the great Freder iek in small things as In great." The kaiser once preared a paper on the reform of the English militia and sent it to the British war office, where It was read anil filed and he was as possible when n new war minister in a conversation told him he had both seen and read It. Viscount Haldane again visited Berlin In the spring of 1912. under Instrtic tlnns by Sir Edward Grey to discuss the general European situation ami f h. German ship-building program in con- sequence of the growth and power of Germany as the heod of the triple alli ance Naturally there ha. I U-en other pOWerl which tended to approximate thereto, but there was no reason why the triple alliance (Germany. Austria. Italy) and what was called the triple entente (Britain, France, Husslul should not lie frlendlv. Viscount Haldane assured Hr. von IN tlitn.lMi Hollweg. who seemed skepti cal, that Great Britain had no agree- m nt with France and Russia except as had been published. (Jreat Brit ain's military preparations were not hostile Referring to Morocco, Viscount Haldane said that If Germany had In tended to attack France and destroy Roumanian Army Ready to Strike Decisive Blow at Germans PjLL BE A SAMMY BACKER Ardmore has its own Engineering Company. There are 162 Ardmore and Carter county boys in this com pany. These boys are going to the front after a season of training. Every boy likes to get a word of inside news, something that is not printed, that may be of personal interest to him. He likes to have someone to write to and tell of his many little perplexities, to make a confidant of while he is off in a strange land all by himself. That is why the Ardmoreite has proposed to organize the Sammy Backers. The Ardmoreite wants someone to agree to be a Sammy Backer for each one of the boys in the Engineer ComDanv. someone who will write the boys frequently, who will attend to little things lor thorn "back home," in fact who will take a lively interest in them. The Ardmoreito has a complete roster of the members of the company and will assign one boy to each applicant till all are drawn. Fill out and sign the blank below and mail to The Dailv Ardmoreite: Editor Daily Ardmoreite: I do hereby agree to be a Sammy Backer and will accept the name of the member of Co. B. Engineers which is assigned to me and keep in touch with him through his services. Name 1 A Roumanian snMier und n uiv.inl. rt. 1.1.1.1.,.. ., u net i . , . v . - ... . . ,. ..,.,,,.. , ,,,, ,, in ui ooiiiewnere on me itoumanian Iront. The r.-nc h Imve reorganized the Roumanian forces, which are now ready to launch an offensive against the Germans which will drive mem oui or men country. This Bread Maker Does Work of 100 Men Turning Out 6,000 Loaves an Hour ' IB.jL ' jMBK ADVERSE DECISION ON CHILD LABOR LAW TO SUPREME COURT Washington, Sept. 1. The govern ment will at once appeal the decision of Judge Boyd in the Greensboro, S. G., federal court, in holding the federal child labor law unconstitutional. It probably will Pi expedited to get It be- foie the supreme court at the coming fall term. Inasmuch as a contest was to be expected, officials are not concerned over the decision by a lower court, as It serves as the vehicle for appeal and speedy determination of the question before the highest court of the land. Department of Justice officials have no doubt of the constitutionality of the law. and are confident that many dr clslons of the supreme court point to a victory for the government. li:N OF BUIIKI.OKS IN CHARGE SHOWCl s" DANCING QIRL& The announcement is out today that Paul C Ekern. who is Claimed to ne the dean of Ardmore bachelors, will have charge of the Oriental dancing gills, and cowgirls at the Chamber of Commerce kind's "6(i Ranch and Hum bug Circus" on September 7. Mr. Ekern lias been chaperoning the fair sex for so many years It has become second nature with him; so far none of the young "ladles" connected with the show have entered a "kick" at having Mr. Ekern look after their interest. He says it is like portraying an act of stealing candy from a bay, for the "girls" are all so tame he has nothing to do but "look 'em over." The "girlie's" names are withheld as a surprise to the un suspecting public. Find it in the want ads. LONDON CLEANINC, AND DYEING WORKS Mr. J. J. Swartout, our representative, will call on you in a few days and will explain to you our facilities for taking care of your last fall clothes, by having tliem cleaned or dyed by our skilled workmen. Nothing too delicate for us to handle to your satisfaction. Watch for Mr Swartout or phone 301, LONDON CLEANING AND DYEING WORKS .'07 V. Main SI. Befweeil I III big SllOWS. Phone Ml Felkers Grocery Store A good place to buy Groceries, where everything good to eat is kept under one ro0t at the right price. SPECIALS Chase & Sanlsirn's Coffee, Teas, Blue Ribbon Putter. Country Butter. Colorado and South Texas Vegetables and Fruits are sold every month in the year. l-'resh Baltimore Oysters in season. Call Phones 17 4 or Iti Two brothers. .1 and .1. M Garvey. have Invented a portable mechanical bread maker that should be mighty big help I In feeding the doughlsiys in the trenches. Its Inventors ny that a crew of five men and this bread maker can do the work of a hundred men. It has made K.tmo loaves of the staff of lif.. in nn iw.,,- ,...,i ..... Street City . her capacity to defend herself. Great Britain would have had such interest In the result that she could not have stood by and seen it done. Von Bcthniann Makes Proposition. Ir. von Bethmann-Hollweg proposed as a formula that neitner England nor Germany should enter Into any com bination against the other. Haldane asked what good was an agreement if Germany wa going to Increase her battleships and force Eng land to do the same. England, he said, certainly would have to lay down two keels to Germany's one. The next day. the question was dis cussed at lunch with Emperor William. Admiral Tirpitz (minister of the navy) and Dr. von Hethmann Hnl weg. Haldane made the Mlnt that an agreement would lie bones without flesh If Germany went on with her new fleet The emperor wns visibly disturbed at the suggestion that there could be no political agreement worth having unless there was nn agreement about Gentian blp building. Admiral von Tirpit. mU if was hard for Gtrmany to make any admission nlsiut Great Britain's two IHjwer standard. Hulitane said the initl alive was with Germany. .The conversa tion resulted in the dropping of one bat-tli-.-hip from Germany's program. Count von Reventlow in his book as serted that tlitee ships were dropped. Attempt at Agreement. The next day, the conversation lie tween the chancellor and Haldane re sulted in a provisional approval of Hal dune's formula for the entente, with the addition of three Important article-). These were: Klrst: If either side became entan gled In a war In which It could not be said to be the aggressor, the other would observe lienevolcnt neutrality and try to localize the conflict. Second: The neutrality should not ap ply where there were no reconcilable existing contracts. The contracting powers were to do all in their sjwer to prevent differences lietween them and other lowers. The chancellor offered England an ex ceptlonal isirtion In the railway le tween Bagdad and Besarabla. Haldane asked for the controlling por tion. Germany was to recognize Eli land's political interests In the Persian gulf and southern Persia and to help England get from Turkey a concession for an extension of the railway from Baser to Kuweit. Germany asked cer tain territorial changes In Africa. Germany (onf ruling Turkey. The article says the prMsed settle ment was on the whole favorable to England, except that Turkey was drift Ing Into the isisltiou of a dependents of Germany. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg would have yielded on the naval diffi culty for the sake of an Hrr'-tncnt In the near east, but Admiral , Tirpitz had his way for the sake of a few ships which have leen of no value to Germa ny in the war. The article in the Guardian concludes: "Haldane tried by every means consist ent with Great Britain's interests and honorable obligations to strengthen the hand of the moderates In Germany, while jils enemies strengthened the hands of the extremists and supplied them with arguments that England, despite her fair professions, was the real enemy Considering the political forces at work, the war may have been inevitable, but those who tried to make heudway against the current have no reason to regret their endeavor." In America no woman 's considered I teeth; In India she prefers them stained a Is-nuiy unless she has white and per- red. but in certain parts of Sumatra IM teeth. In Japan the professional no lady who respects herself will con licauly loves to appear with golden ! tlnue to have any front teeth ut all. Phone 366 C. P. HALL Caddo 3rd A The New and Second-Hand Home Outfitter. IN THAT BIG BOX HOUSE NO RENT TO PA Just received big shipment white and ivory bedrcon. suits. Our specialties are the Herrick Refrigerator the Border Queen Kitchen Cabinet, side roll; Revonach Ol' Stoves, Superior and Monogram Gas Stoves. We Swap and Buy Anything Easy Payments. lllilllli Carter County Free Fair RACE MEET Four Days L Profitable Recreation September 15, 16 17 & 18 A Big Feature This Year Will be the exhibits made by the boys and girls, poultry, pig and other clubs, showing the excellent progress that has been made the past year. Races Every Day During the Fair Good purses have been offered assuring some excellent racing events during the three days, brim full of ginger and speed. If you have not yet arranged for your exhibit or wish information as to the manner of making entries address a letter to either F. K. West or Carl Russell at Ardmore and full particulars will be sent promptly. Carter County bids you welcome and will afford you an entertainment on this occasion which will both delight and instruct. ni:i;i :-:!l,,1,i,M,l;!!ii:,rr:iii.1,,,:;:iil,1!llii.,l:-inM : .,:,;!.,;..:,!,:!: ,,, ., i.!'1,:1!, , : ; , i ; ; , ; I -: : , . ; . , , i : : -; I i 1 1 , , , , . , : , , 1 . . . : . ; i i . n , :;.,;;.,,:,.