LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 312, 5 December 1918, Page 6

LATE CABLE NEWS.

I “NEVER DESIRED WAR.” : EX-CROWN PRINCE’S STORY, i ; A TALE FOR THE MARINES. [ (Received 5, 11.15 a.m.) London, Dec. 3. A inc.-sag - via America states :--- - An interview wita the ex-crown Prince, published in the “.Sosterland Bulletin,” declared that the downfall of th? German Military power was the result of revolution induced by four years’ hunger among the civilians and troops at i tue rear, togetner with overwnelmI ing superiority of numbers secured to tiie Entente by the. .Americans' entry, winch und.rnnned the confidence of the German fighting forces. I im cx-Crown Pr.mee added: “Aly troops nad no rest. Sometimes a whole division had but six hundred > rilles, i had not been in Germany for a year. Contrary to all state- , lueuls made abroad, 1 never desired tiie war, and thought the | movement inoppottune. 1 was never , consulted, aria tae report about a : Crown Council being held at Berlin t-o d-.wiae on war 1 aeny on oath. 1 v.as liijoyiiig a stay at a watering pone xvinii mobilisation was order- < il. ->;y tatuer aiso, 1 am sure, did not dc.-iic war. n G-'.riiiany nad ought tne best opportunity ior war sue would have ciiusen either the nocr war or the Russian war I periods. i'l'om to,? beginning I was sure England would enter tae war. This vna was not shared by Prince 11< nry ami othei- niembeis of the I IlllUii;,'. | " vcople blam? me for tae Verdun jfailiira 1 refused twice to attack; tneva with the troops at my disposal. On tue third occasion my * attack was successful iu tne first L.ii'i-c days, but 1 was improperly 'iipiioited. L thought the Verdun attack a mistake.'’ | l.i DenDGKI'F o BLLNDER. j The Prince- was bitter regarding ’ tiie work oi tne general stall, whtcu v. as sib:;' tor numerous mis-i takes. General Ludendorff and his stall continuously underestimated tne enemy's torccs, never believed America s contribution to be great. ! ’Lnq nw;' regaitied t.t? aiunstiee l.eriiis as veiy severe, and almost impossible oi execiition. if Germid L, c’a victorious she would -:-l made firms so hard. I Tne i'rmce 'Said he always en- ; tii'ciy u.sngrecd with air raids on .m.c’i i a cities, iicrc? submarine , : o-;iort:'.tion of women, an 1 t ie Irmitiiig of Paris. Tiie German dii>li,,ii:'.i:-, made awful mistakes, > i.-.ag uu.'ible to sr.’c tm: view-point ; .a e.i.i-itr..v.ii.'ic t iiey v. ei e Stu- j I tioiio't. and in misleading the opinion. of otm.r emintries. | ICAR FAT HE IL i I I’,'feri'ing to the notorious Boer' [war telegram, the Prine '* declared: 1 “?>ly lather was made to send the t-i'lcwT un i?y his polhmal advisers. Hfv;ry time he d-sregardvd lie was told \o attend to his own business of commanding ins armies.” ; Tiie l iince declared the air raids <:n Lomkui and the big gun used to bvmbal'd Faris w: re useLss nuli- : tai'iiy, and in fact silly. He said : i “L suggested two years ago an ini ternatioual agri ement confining air activities to the war zonw. illy opinion was disregarded. Orders to tiie submarine commanders were read differently by various officers. ■ some of whom went much too far.” -(A. N N.Z.) THE WILSONIAN PEACE ; SENATE CRITICISMS. I Washington. December 4. | Disc-using .<:e Wilsonian peace. ' Senator Freyling Huy son demanded , that President Wilson should interi pret what he meant. The Presi-: ! dent ought net 'to make radical pro- ' posals n?i.il he was certain that the : American public endorsed them. • emitor Walsii pointed out that the disinclination of Americans to crit’-i-e t' - Piesident Juul crea ed the ,-nertl belief of their acceptability, emit or Torah introduced a resolu.::m demand'.!)'! an open discussion ■ ii the Peace Treaty when the time, came to consider it in the Senate. | RUMANIA. KING KETUIINS TO HIS CAPITAL. (Received 5. 11.15 a.m.) London. Dec. 3. A Bncharcst messae - dated Piiim '■ Vovemb- r suites that the Royal [ tnmily has returned and a new ■ Government has been form'-d, with j General Coanda as Premier. — ! (A. & X.Z.)