St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 27, 1918

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Baron von Freytag-Loringhofen, Deputy Chief of the Great General Staff, Writing on the Lessons of the Present Con ; Says the Next Time the Teutonic War Forces Are Set in Motion There Will Be No Miscarriage of Plans Such as fe: Preve Them From Realizing Their Objectives and Forcing a Speedy and Favorable Peace. ‘ WHAT GERMAN MILITARISM HAS LEARNED IN THE WAR The following quotations are taken from “Deductions From the World War,” the book by Lieut. Gen. Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven, who succeed- ed the late Count Helmuth von Moltke as Deputy Chief of the German Great General Staff, and preceded Ludendorff as Quartermaster General. Among Mankind — Strategy “4 ‘ 2a CAC +} y a It Suppresses Hypocrisy and Ks PEACE LEAGUE “INTOLERABLE TUTELAGE”—“Therefore the idea of a uni- the War Discussed. ) tablishes Truth on the Throne, versal league for the preservation of peace remains a Utopia, and would be felt as an intol- a He Argues erable tutelage by any great and proud-spirited nation.” Heinrich von Treitschke, and the great author : * 4% on strategy, Clausewitz, appear again and & NO “VAGUE COSMOPOLITAN SEN TIMENTALITY”— “The fact that’ but Napoleon is the only ee = cisely the President of the United States of North America who advocated such a honored by frequent reference. As thickly as B _ NO. 157. x + VOL. 70, "Between Russia and Allies et el _ Printed Here for First Time i h Discussed Clause From the Italian Agreement Barring the Pope. > Eason Any Participation or Hearing in Peace Conference Is Included Together With Official Memorandum Attributing to Rumania Mer- ery Reasons for Entering War. me. SS pe Universal Peace and a League to Enforce It Are Neither Possible Nor Desirable Because War Isa Natural Outlet of National Ex- pression, and Brutal as It Is, I¢| ls Beneficial to Society in That The Empire, More Than Ever 8 Must Rely on Her Sword X Must Also Develop Her Power So That She Can Force World to Recognize Her Positix lo AAD OLED ALE AGILE LE LEE LE STL LAE NO ALE NE Nt Nett ee: eater Ee eet cht. et teint S A MattietN ae ttt tla catitna “ | Post-Dispatch publishes today; the first installment of the complete texts of the sensational secret treaties and documents from the files of the Russian Foreign Office, made public by the Bolshevik Government at Petrograd. The translations here presented, of the profound- 2 ternational interest and eatenanes,: are from the first Russian texts to reach this country. The a nts given below are: . 4 * _ 1, Trotzky’s preface to the publication of the secret treaties, announcing that ‘‘the govern- | _ tent of workers and peasants abolishes secret diplomacy.’’ _. | - 2 §ecret telegram from Terestchenko, Russian Foreign Minister, Sept. 24, 1917, to the Rus- Ambassador in Paris, concerning the willingness of the then Russian Government to publish pe treaties concluded before the war. = Le _ §. The treaty by which Italy entered the war, April 26, 1915. ' 4 Beport of Gen. Polivanoff regarding causes of Rumania’s entry into the war, Nov. 20, as pre- other- : - aa , Rs: > : Eesare _ &. Confidential memorandum, source ‘ot indicated, of offers to Greece for her aid to Serbia. 6. Agreement with regard to the division of Turkey, Feb. 21, 1917. _ Other installments of these secret documents will be published in the Post-Dispatch on succeed- | Possession of the Post-Dispatch and the New York military autocracy of the German empire { A DOCUMENT which reveals the mind of the | after three years of war has come into the |World. Written for military and junker consump- _ hood of nations must in any case arouse our wonderment. America’s behavior in the war has shown that pacifism, as represented in America, is only business pacifism, and so at the bottom nothing else than crass materialism. * * * In any event, as regards us Ger- mans, the world war must disencumber us once and for all of any vague cosmopolitan sen- timentality.” lical texts in a sermon are scattered pasa Be the memoirs of sundry Teutonic rc : erick the Great, King William I, Prinée J erick Charles, Archduke Albert of Austria;~ German soldiers, Scharnhorst, Von Moltke LN OL LEB OORLE ES BIO LAL ALORA LLG LL AG | A LR ALE I le NEE Be Ne ah NS “Rl a tion only, by the fourth personage in the Ger- ‘man military hierarchy, Lieutenant-General ‘Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven, Deputy Chief of ithe German Great General Staff, it has been ‘ | smuggled out of Germany. consenting. Regarding | During the late — or early autumn of last ( tha: tenstion of Asia |¥°8” meron “von Freytag- -Loringhoven wroye 1 a ) Minor agreements, 1 | book called “Deductions From the World War.’ # * PEACE NOT EVEN.“BEAUTIFUL DREAM ‘The often quoted saying of M oltke that ‘eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautful dream will continue to be true.’ r 7 + THREAT TO TEAR UP MORE TREATIES!— agine that it is possible to rid the world of war by means of mutual agreements. The further development of international courts of arbitration, and the elimination of ; many causes of dispute by their agency, lie within the realm of possibility, but any reconcil- will . communicate to ae purpose of this work was twofold, to glorify iations which they may effect will never be more than agreements, which will not on every you my views in a spe- | the Sie of riage Psy _ DF ae occasion be capable of holding in check the forces seething within the states. ‘ iid wenbbelnentery tel: land future, and to set down, from the wr er’s | * sca beniene | tonal understandings exram. unigue experience, technical criticism of the) ARMY AND FLEET “IN FUTURE AS IN PAST.”—“We find it impossible to be- any kind, but diplo- Ie tikes ways frank! necessary weapon in the hands of a prop- ‘machine for the next. Ne ed din its belaurelled young fleet.” y and in the ertied minority which is forced to de ment among the Pow- audi ta hook 4 : ‘aeed , . seek firm cohesion in its glorious army and In ; Ss public view. . plltiiess vied 4 ors. of ( Oh i uch a book is a two-edged weapon; it must ) * . ¥ “The demand for the ceive the majority in order to subject it dates BP: i Beir al not fall into enemy hands; export was prohibited, EFFECTS OF WAR BENEFICIAL—“It is true that the effects of war are in many respects very beneficial. War banishes pretense and reveals the truth. It produces the to its own interests. Imperiali ] ; lication of the secret . s. Imperialism with year of the war and and steps appear to nave been taken to restrict tie itp ie world wits plans of plunder and ra- its circulation to “safe” quarters, while, after one most sublime manifestations of masculine personality. . ; : the regime of the pacious treaties and agreements brought ‘or two indiscretions which set allied investigators i as ought forward . the system of secret diplomacy to its ae nenee OB ADIN ,on the track, the German newspapers were for- “MIGHT OF OUR.SWORD" TO SAFEGUARD PEACE”—“A long peace, such as 4 after | “4 ls Gverthvow of” is very highest development. The struggle a 8 " net ap bidden to mention its existence. that which preceded the world war, had frequently caused us - sos eine ae sina en di ie Czar’s Government with the imperialism that has bled white eutrancte “of Italy’ inte Since “Félgerungen aus dem Weitkrieg” left the! | wi not the fine phrases about intérnational bliss ap ay 4 . ie Seid aah . ke Sheik tet neta): and ruined the peoples of Europe at the eHishs od : presses of E. S. Mittler & Son, in Berlin, some sion at public meetings which preserved us from war; a ~ MY ores taeda cn same time connotes the conflict against “The Italian ¢ time in October, three copies, so far as is known,}| was only fully revealed on the outbreak of war. And it will only y & capitalistic diplomacy, which has many an agent, have reached allied or neutral countries. Two of shall be able to safeguard our peace in the future.” ‘ Marquis Imperiali, un- ©. 2 reasons to fear the light of day. The . _. ., | these are in official hands. From the third, with | «s * © * has proved Russian people and with it the peoples Gor: Ieptructions of: hia official sanction, an English translation has been } NOT ENOUGH PREPARATION "FOR WAR!—‘The war P Governm before the war) would have been of Europe and of the whole world must AA es the made. We are able to give comprehensive ex- that additional expenditure on the army at the right time ( J herd honor to deliver to the The demands which in this connection were put before the Reichstag were but a learn the documentary truth of these Minister of Foreien Af. tracts from this translation. The book complete tified. e de d. th worl d war has proved.” plans hatched in secret by the financiers fai rs: Sir E te ag th will shortly be published in this country by G. P. co : * and industrialists jointly with their’ par- Wake ciahdie P © | Putnam’s Sons. liamentary and diplomatic agents. For (in Lofdon). M sn OF | The author of this astounding work is no retired the right to to this truth the people of bh J ane aeprage ‘cavalry officer, like Bernhardi. Only the Kaiser, , on, and the Russian | , Europe have paid with countless sacrif- |'Hindenburg and Ludendorff rank above Von Frey- ‘ ; : Ambassador (in Lon- ices and complete economic ruin. 'tag-Loringhover in ‘the German army, and they iy - don), Count Bencken- | The abolition of secret diplomacy is diet the:- Yotlowina |" not writers. the foremost condition of honest, popular ; .| — uae. : ; : memorandum: ‘ , : } truly democratic external policy. To “AMET. Beiwéin the L Freytag’s Seven Points Analyzed carry out such policy in fact is the pur- ; EE é; general staffs of pose of the Soviet government. There- France, Great Britain fore, in openly proposing an immediate ' phe . Russia and Italy armistice to all belligerent nations and forthwith be yee vkoap their governments, we at the same time Comctuded | 1. A reaffirmation of the creed of Bernhardi publish such treaties and agreements sie Belcan and the maddest jingoes of pro-war Germany; de- which have lost all their obligatory force define © the coe Pees nunciation of America; scorn for the “intolerable to the Russian workers, soldiers and ititindy Rebeka ‘whith tutelage’ of a league of nations; praise of war. peasants, who have taken the power in i siden * at Areas 2. Germany and the Next War; plans for ‘ + their own hands.- sabistiiet clit. Stem. another attack outlined, (a) universal and opt. 24 1917) to pub- gary : in the event ! ree ees eu aes aaa “ ) velopment.” LEP , } BRUTALITIES DUE TO ALLIES’ “MASS-PSYCHOSIS”—“Thus we had to wage shales ad cir cxewsd war against enemies who were under the influence of a mass-psychosis. This has engen- — dered phenomena such as Europe has not witnessed since the time of the wars of religion. soo i Peete we ge had uitic Deeds of horror and senseless rage of destruction * * * have again made. themselves Bail ypocrisy which underlios th * Th t difference between civilization and Kultur was clearly re- ; sy - “The-Sword Is Our Safe “No one can foresee future developensalas i of all while such a war as the present is st progress. Hence it is not impossible that i manifest. * * vealed.” LOOTING OF FRANCE—“‘We- had to strive to turn to the best account the pro- ductive district of Northern France, wiith its wealth of industries.” * 3 _. A Telegram From Terestchenk: HUMANITIES OF WAR “RELEGATED TO BACKGROUND”—“In the course of these (air) raids some unfortified places without military significance have had to suffer. The bombardment of these places is in itself objectionable, but the limits of what is permissible are in this matter in many ways elastic. A mew weapon opens up its own paths, as is shown, for example, by the submarine war In any case, in this struggle of the peoples, with its economic background, the war is turned more and more against the enemy countries, and the principle hitherto accepted that war is made only against the armed power of the enemy is, in this case as in other spheres, relegated to the back- * Og Nt gg OO ton OO ttt gat ge cat sata ON tl uO el et TT a ee ground.” a Prussian Guard regiment. His rise was rapid,; The Kaiser in 1916 conferred upon Freytag the and before the war, as a member of the Great\ Order Pour le Merite (Peace Class). The Baron General Staff, his technical military writings had ) has been the only army officer to receive during won him a reputation as the best critic in the( the war the Peace Class of this high decoration, t epuey. which {s conferred only for distinction th “science ) When war broke out Freytag for the first 10({ and arts.” The bestowal of the order must there- weeks was the German representative on the Aus-| fore have been in recognition of Freytag’s mili- ret ON tO QO A, ag ge, —™ especially of {north of Lissariki and Trebino, and on the south senseless rage of destruction.’’ master-General in the field, the post now adorned| reward. Von Freytag-Loringhoven would seen, » x : a eer a oe : ee RE A re iSvacae Ye 3 fk Riga Be < eapeslalias uitteale pes: See. rat ne RAT Se AOR EAE Ted: HERR, ek COME EAT OE a no Sie a tp Re lands of Premua, Selva, Ulbo, Skerb, Maon, i cD i nmap —