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},‘ e* 27/ 1. \/ ?;@é ' B . g, =L g i ‘ : ,‘L : B l Ay ¥ Ak ‘ “*; ,‘1 v : I 5 > "4 = w;/"._’ A A \ ; ) —y LY s S T L Wy i -g! e V% ~t XV e P ) 114 ¥ . TRENCH & CAMP i‘ e e g ’ ' Published weekly ot the Natiemal Camps and Cantonments for the soldlers of the Duntted States. National Headguarters Room G 604, Pulitzer Building 2 New Yerk City 3 JOHN STEWART BRYAN 3 Chairman of Advisory Boasd of Co-operstimg Publishers Camp and Location Newspaper Pablisher Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La..... New Orleans Times Picayune..........D. D. Moore Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas...... Fort Worth Star Telegram........Amon C. Carter Caristrom Aviation Fleld, Arcadia, Fla. Tampa Times......ccccccevvcensne-s.D. B. McKay Camp ’Cod‘ ROIRE B IERy v woric i PRSO BRI, .i . ..v.oiivisenanssss H D Rater Camip ‘Custir, ‘Bittle Creek, Mich...... Battle Creek Enquirer-New5...........A. L Miller Camp Deviens,” Ayer, Ma55.............805t0n G10be................Char1es H. Taylor, Jr. ‘Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. 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PALMER | Publisher of the Houston Post, Houston, Texas | “I am so thankful that I can fight, know_ingmglondonuinmthe seas, far from danger, though my every effort is for their safety. ‘ An expression of a soldier about to mforomeu.h e rdu was a s aw’s nofplum,ab::‘ysare free dissegard for obligations to any or anything even fairly remote fi. the object of his immediate pleasure or happiness. This morning he heard his coun- Siantty” i maay Boasocer” (b gmru anticipations youth ummet;lu‘h:ndeuofapan. To become a % organization to mfo?:vtn. T‘:Hoaehhidenfity. tododrudfe:y, to chafe under thz‘ monotony of camp life, to serve a gov ernment to him impersonal to fight an enemy to him unknown and uninter esting. To take this step required every element of manhood—much that is lacking in many men more mature in years., - To say that the American flag means more to the American people today than it has ever meant before is no refiection upon their patriotism. It is a simple.statement of fact. It follows, therefore, that Flag Day, luneM.wiHmunmmthi-yurthan t has meant since the observance of the anniversary was instituted. hmF‘or tlaeu 5& time irvxh:merifian tory, ry is wa on Eu ropean battlefields. It follows, there fore, that the American flag means more to Europe than it has ever meant be‘TméheT hosts, and ° eutonic particu hr‘!!ysto the E:utomc rulers, the Stfirs and Stripes have a new . Be foredxewutheflaguymafree people, with unmen:dnatnnl re sources, great wealth certain, mis understood ideals of government. To able. that for. “ifih’"’ e Jthat t comm fedumdm nited States, could ever be a powerful nation, as power was reckoned b; European rulers. Kaiser Wilhelm is credited with the statement that America’s power was negligible because America was a real Thhnme_!.viewhdbemtanghnby Pmuianmd‘nh. Their teach- Vtfl the ears of President ilson and, months before war was declared by the United States, he said: "leam-’nn’ngthtifwesimddgo to war upon cither side there would be a divided America—an abominable lib;lo{'gnml” i ot?-ekh stars in i mean forty-eight commonwealths. Yet i Slgiicancs =W3 which seaped cance t themd:ofthekabermdhhcm scliors. They kmew that the forty cight states were not vassal states and tie bound them, medfin&emdiotce. d:ho stars : cxpun::u d meant e mocracy. Each state wamted to be represented in the natiomal emblem; each state asserted its automomy. posite whole. 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T Y o 8 Pt -e g g | At noon thg.:;,ia a h‘EC:LDIER,' ready to fight, in hi nowle(:ge ‘thth%lovedonesa.reode.m?ume seas, enolongeruwochngor 8 gonrm—butfight::g for his loved ones—for his home his country nwithanewhodemtheu-fing |of freedom. He no k loohn%)'n | the as unknown, but as a liv :flmtotflm& r dear in life. He is a soldier with a purpose, a soldier with knowledge | of methods and causes of war—a vital ::-tdnh'pmd’ force that cannot l Muzmmdm | pense while he is battling over there, | and then the glorious dawn of tomor {row with wvictory for a free world. | The fame of those who return and the | glory of those who give up their lives | will live through the ages. , i Just now, however, we can but gaze | in wonder and pride at the wonderful | transition of the boy, the man and the soldier. FLAG DAY unq::ltimably the product of minds 80 impracticable that they were soar in%_lt:nrds the stars! American ideal was high—as high as the stars, if you will—but no ideal is to be condemned because of its great reaches. The day of testing came. Democ racy was at the crcss roads. And again the Kaiser was shown to have made a miscalculation. Some years before he had calculated on the disin tegration of the British Empire be cause it had bound its dominions only by cords of loy::md Yet when Britain in her distress to the dominions in the uttermost parts of the earth, :::le flower of t!fu manhoodd olf those onies came forward eagerly, joy ously. And what a record they have written! So with America! Ten millions of her men went to the booths and reg istered for service, for the ultimate sacrifice if necessary. They went with no other compuision than the ex pressed will of the -Federal Govern ment. Todxeno home in the land has es caped claims of war. No home in the land is without its share in the sacrifices. Old Glory floats to the breeze and with it a companion flag, the service symbol. Is it any wonder that the national flag means more to day than in the days of ease and care free prosperity? Never was there such a united America. Tofl there is no North and no South. It is one nation, indi visible, with a flag whose form stars must preach their true even to those in the palace at Posdam. The 3 floats in the breezes of the proddmtx to our strug w that all resources of i in materials, and men, mw to nct::? ae red stripes extent America’s E:p-nhen to sacrifice, the blood of ‘white stripes tell the world, Allies and encmies uvdl.dthegi!yo(&ner ica’s motives, that battles for mu__. and with no thought of gain but cd{“flnt the world may be made safe @m winch she experimented and of whi she is the chuef exponent. “Then conguer we mwust, when - our cause it is just, and this be our matio, ‘ln Cod is our trust.”” TRENCH AND CAMP ® . Two German Writers Prove ® , Kaiser Started World War ‘ People of the Teutonic powers are gradually 'being undeceived. Right on the heels of the “Dear Sixtus” lettdr 'of Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary, came the revglations:by Prince Lichnowsky, v;lho was the German.ambassador in England at the outbreak of the war. These revelations were written for a family record so that when the judgment of another generation had determined the guilt in the present war, Prince Lichnowsky would be scen to have been the helpless tool of a grasping buteaucracy. But the private papers came to public notice.” The people learned the truth. After the publication of his confessions, W. Miihlon, formerly a Krupp director, but now a resident of Switzerland, published some further facts of the German policy. : The so-called Potsdam conference did take place. As early as July 5, 1914, Germany had decided upon war. Yet the German people were told Britain was the aggressor and that Germany did not take the sword, it was thrust figg\on her! Latet’ Former Foreign Minister von Jagow confirmed the Lichnowsky statement and practically exculpated England. In view of all this, what is going on in the German mind? For nearly four years he has been deceived. Now he knows he was.de ceived and that his government lied, the clergy lied and the Pecksniffian Emperor was the father of lies. Miles behind the battle lines, in as great safety as he demands for his six sons, the Em r viewed the great panorama of the Western drive—using, o% course, the most powerful telescope he could steal—for it probably was one of the glasses taken dunnfi the Chinese campaign. Then he caused tears to fill his eyes an cried out: “What have I not done to avoid all this!” The answer is nothing. For here is the record: DR. MUHLON: “I knew Dr. Helfferich's par ticularly intimate relations with the personages who were sure to be initiated, and I knew that his communication was trust worthy. After retarn from Berlin I inlome:'{)r. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbech, ome of whose directors I then was at Essen. Dr. Helfferich had given me permission, and at the time there was an intemtion of mak ing him a director of Krupps’'. “Dr. von Bohlen seemed dis turbed that Dr. Helfferich was in possession of such imforma tion, and he made the remark to the effect that Government pecple can never keep their mouths -llnt. The Kaiser had told him he would declare war immediately if Russia mobilized, and that this time people should see that he would not vacillate. The Kaiser's repeated insistence that this time nobody would be able to accuse him of indecision had, he said, been almost comic in its effect. “On the very day indicated to me by Helfferich, the Austrian ultimatum to Servia appeared. At this time I was again in Ber lin, and 1 told Helfferich that I regarded the tone and contemts of the ultimatam as simply mon strous. . . . On this occa sion Helfferich also said to me that the Kaiser had gome on his northern cruise only as a blind. He had not arranged the cruise on the usual extensive scale, but was remaining close at hand and keeping in constant touch. The Austrians, who, of course, did not expect the ultimatum to be accepted, were really acting rap idly before the other Powers could find time to interfere. The Deutsche Bank had already made its arrangements so as to be pre pared for all eventualities. “Since the first days of 1917 I have abamdoned all hope as regards the preseat directors of Germany. Our offer of peace, without indicating cur war-aims, the accentuation of the sub marine war, the deportation of the Belgians, the systematic de structions in Framce, and the torpedoing of English hospital ships, have so degraded the gov ernors of the German Empire that I am profoundly convinced they are disqualified forever for the elaboration and conclusion of a sincere and just agreement. . . The German people will not be able to repair the grievous crimes committed against its own preseat and future, and agaimst that of Eurcpe and the whole human race, untfl it is repre sented by different men with a a man and as a German who de sires mhz but the welfare of the decei and tortared Ger man people, I turn away defi nitely from the preseat represen tatives of the German régime." CONSCIENCE CONDEMNS THE LIAR, BUT KULTUR CONe DEMNS ONLY THE LIAR WHO HEEDS HIS CON- : PRINCE LICHNOWSKY: “I learned that at the decisive conversation at Potsdam on July 5 the inquiry addressed to us by Vienna found absolute :nssent ; among afl the personages au thority; indeed, they added that there would be no harm if a war with Rassia were to resuit. So, | at any rate, it is stated in the Austrian protocol, which Count Mensdorft (Austrian Ambassa dor) received in London. . “My London mission was wrecked not by the perfidy of the British but by the perfidy of our own policy. . . . I had to support in London a policy which I knew to be fallacious. I was paid out, for it was a sim against the Holy Ghost. . . o ' We pressed for war. We delibe erately destroyed the possibility : of a peaceful settlement. - + | Sir Edward Grey, throughout the whole of the negotiations, never took open sides with Ras sia or France in order that he mightnots;g:lyany pretext for a conflict. t pretext was sup plied later by a dead Archduke. ‘“As appears from all official publications, without the facts - being comtroverted—by our own White Book, which, owing to its poverty and gaps, constitutes a grave self-accusation: : “t., We encourage Count Berchtold (the Austrian Foreign Minister) to attack Servia, al though no German interest was involved, and the danger of a world-war must have been known to us—whether we kmew the text of the ultimatum .is a ! question of complete indiffer~ ' ence. { ¢“2. In the days between July 28 and July 830, 1914, when Mr. Sazonoff (the Russian Foreign Minister) emphatically declaped that Russia could not tolerate an _attack upon Servia, we rejected the British proposals of media tion, although Servia, under Russian and British pressure, had accepted almost the whole ultimatam, and although an agreement about the two points in question could easily have been reached, and Count Berch told (the Austrian Foreign Min ister) was even ready to satisfy bhimself with the Servian reply. | “3. Om July 30, when Count Berchtold wanted to give way, - we, without Austria having been attacked, replied to Russia’s mere mobilization by seading an ultimatem to St. Petersburg, and on July 81 we declared war on the Russiams, although the Czar had pledged his word that as long as negotiations continued not a man should march—so that we delibarately destroyed the possibility of a peaceful settle ‘ment, “In view of these indisputable facts, it is mot surprising that the whole civilised world outside Germany aitributes to us the sole guilt for the world-war.”