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On February 12 Count Wedel called on me, and his request and my settlement of it appear in the following telegram to Hohenlohe: Vienna, Feb. 12, 1917. To notify Your Excellency. Count Wedel has been instructed to submit to me the following three requests from his Government: Count Tarnowski is not to hand over his credentials until the situation between Germany and America is clear.
But finally, by making himself think in German, he began to see a light ahead. And after an hour's hard work he gave a cry of exultation. "I believe I've got it!" he cried. "Listen and see if this doesn't sound reasonable!" "Go ahead!" said Jack and Dick, eagerly. "Here it is," said Harry. "Petrol just arranged. Supply on way. Reach Bray Friday. Von Wedel may come. Red light markers arranged.
He brought the Moroccan question to a crisis, long before it was anticipated; he sent the warship Panther into Agadir Harbor and forced England and France to show their hands. How close war was averted, only four persons knew at that time the Captain of the Panther, von Wedel, the Kaiser and myself.
Kiderlen-Waechter, who had so cleverly pulled the strings of Germany's diplomacy in the Near East, and had now been recalled to Berlin and placed at the helm of the Fatherland's double-dealing with the Powers, spoke little. He seemed to be learning much of the Kaiser's duplicity. "The Emperor William, I can tell you frankly, Father, is displeased," von Wedel said to Rasputin reprovingly.
I took the night's Orient Express for Berlin direct and I made my report to von Stammer, as Wedel was still inaccessible, being away with the Kaiser. At once Austria and Germany set about to smash the threatening predominance of Russian influence in the Balkans.
The unwise prohibition was the cause of the "market-place battle" in Christiania, May 17, 1829, when the troops were called out, and General Wedel dispersed the crowds that had assembled in the market-place. The French July Revolution of 1830, which started the liberal movement throughout Europe, also had its influence in Norway.
His Royal Highness must have been satisfied, for besides a fee of 5000 marks, I received a few days later through Wedel a diamond pin and a magnficent gold watch and chain inscribed with the Grand Ducal arms of Mecklenburg-Schwerein inscribed: "For services performed faithfully to my house."
He no sooner received intimation that Wedel had been worsted, than he marched with a select body of ten thousand men from his camp in Silesia, in order to take upon him the command of Wedel's army, leaving the rest of his forces strongly encamped, under the direction of his brother prince Henry, who had joined him before this event.
The Emperor looked at me queerly, but, evidently satisfied with my answer, he turned to Count Wedel, saying: "He will do. Have the dispatches ready." At once the Count hurried noiselessly into an adjoining room.
He accordingly marched to Torgau, the siege of which had been undertaken by the Austrian general Haddick, who was repulsed by Wedel, and even pursued to the neighbourhood of Eulenbourg. Wedel, being afterwards joined by Dohna, drove him from thence with considerable loss, and then raised the siege of Leipsic.
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