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REVELATIONS.
LONG PLANNED INVASION OF BELGIUM.
THE CIGARETTE WITH THE PEDIGREE
Writing to the Duchess of Ridimond
Captain John Smith said how "un the utmost of many extremities, thar blessed Pocahontas the grear king's Laughter of Virginia saved my life" and to "Princesse Queene Rane of Great Brittani he explained how she hazarded the beating our of her se Braines to save miñé,“ xögó (2 Generous & noble soul whose beauty '8. kindliness captivated all who knew you! An indifferent simile & yet'tis true that what you were to these early Colonists the Tobacco of your land is to me-its Food if I'm hungry, Cordial if I'm sad, and in any extremity the "Three Castles Brand will soothe and enlighten mel
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that of Latin-America The first attack Central bot on us, but en," South or America at some point, to which it would be as difficult for us to send troops to help our neighbours is it would be for Germany in attack.
that there had ever been any actual viola tion of Belgium's frontier by the French prior to the German, invasion of that O course, the unfortunate country. second excuse, that the King of the Belgians had refused free passage to the Emperor's troops under guaranter ofbis
Remember that in Southern Brazil cantry's freedom. is even weaker than the fear. It would, indeed, inaugurate a nearly 400.000 Germans are pustained, as new era in the interrourse of nations if fannd out, in their devotion to the a small nation could only preserve its Fatherland by annual grants of money,
fur educational purposes, from
SAVED AMERICANS PUM PATHIAN HEEL
In a farther instalment of his Mermais, Sir James W. Gerard, former American Aubassador in Berlin, writes:-
When the German Eoqeror in my freedom by, at uit times on request, grant. Presence indired his letter to Presidentin Free passage to the troops of a power-imperial treasury in Berlin.
Tul neighbour on the march to attack an
Wilson of August 2011. 1914. he asked that I cable immediately to the State Department and that simultaneously
in
adjoising ecuntry.
When, on the evening of August 3rd, 1914. Von Sensen, the German Ambat sulor in Paris, presented to the French
the
It was not without reason that at this interview, when the Kaiser wrote this massage to the President, he said that the coming in of England changed the whole situation and, would make the war
The Kaiser talked ruther
give it to the press. I called the docu-Grapeat the ferma "declaration of a long ole ment immediately to the State Depart- war, that document stated that: the despondently about the war... I tried to German ment at Washington, but I withheld it Germian civil and military authorities cheer him up by saying the from publication,
have reported a certain number of definite troops would soon enter Paris, but.. he acts of hostility "munitted on German red The English change the territory by French military aviators, whole situation; an obstinate nation, they Several of these have clearly violated the will keep up the war. It cannot end neutrality of Belgium in #ying over the
for mar.
My interview with the Emperor was in the moning. That Witertoon a man holding a high position in Germany sent I de ont give his name because i du no wish to involve him in any way With the Kniperor, so I shall not even 2040 indicate whether he is royalty ran
official: He suid-
A.R LOWE,
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FOR ADVERTISEMENTS,
You had an interview today, with the Emperor. What happened?"
I told of the message given me for the Presideas which was intended for publica tion by the Emperor. He said think you ought to show the message ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC. ne; you know, the Emperor in a somatita-
tional Emperor and there was once great row about such a message."
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territory of this country.. One of them It was the entry of England in the tried to destroy structures near Wesdl: war, in defence of the rights of amali others have been seen in the region of nations, in defence of the guaranteed: Efel; another has thrown bombs on the neutrality of Belgium, whicle saved the world from the harsh dominion of the railway near Karlsruhe and Nurnberg:
conqueat-hungry Prussians and, there. fore, saved as well the two Americas and their protecting doctrine of President Moare, fi
GENMANT WOULD CHUSH NATIONS.
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"I am charged, and I have the honour to make known to your Excellency that in the presence of these aggressione. the German Empire considers itself in a state of war with France by the act of this hutter Power. But when the German Emperor on August 10th. wrote his personal explanation for President Wilson he made no mention of this alleged viola tion of the neutrality of Pelgium by the French, but wrote that neutrality had"
-HOLLWEG'S WAR EXPLANATION. The doctment, which is inted Augu 10, 1914, saperiedes the statement made by the German Chancellor von Bethun. Hollweg in his speech before the Reich tag on August 4, 1914, in which he gave the then official secount of the gutrance into the war or the Central Empires. Because the text of Bethmann-Hollweg's
to be violated by the Germans 021 speech and the imperial letter to Pre- strategical grounds.**.
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the Prussian Butoersey had been left
sident Wilson will be studied and com
I showed him the message, and when he had read it he said I think it And, aside from the violation of would be inadvisable for us to have this Belgian neutrality, what would havejordy all future historians of the war, I give below the chief part of the Chan- message published, six in the interest of become of England and of the world itjor's version of the facts that accom
panied the Gerah declaration of war. good feeling between Germany and free to defest one by one the nations will be noted that Bethmann-Hellweg America. If you cable it ask that pub. of the earth? First would come the insisted that France began the war in the lication be withheld.".
defeat of Russia and-Servis by Austria sentence relding: There were bomb- .......I complied with his request, and it s and Germany and the incorporation of throwing fliers, cavalry patrols, invading Jarge part of Russia in the Germa
Companies in the Reichaland, "Alsace.
GRAFONOLAS characteristic of the President's desire, to Empire. German induénce would be foraine. Thereby France, although the
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preserve good relations that publication predominant-la Tussia and all the vast conditions of war had not yet been de was withheld. Now, when the two coun- resources of that groat empire at theclared, hud attacked our territory." But tries are ab war, when the whole world, command of Germany. All the flects in the Emperer makes no mention of this the world could uselessly blockade the fuct, of supreme importance if true, in
and especially our own country, has an German coosts if Germany possessed for his writing to President Wilson six days imitless riches of the cropire of the later Von Bethmann-Holweg' account Romanoffs..
Interest in knowing how his great alamity of univanai, war cane to the arth, tha time has come when this message should be given out, and I have published it by permission.
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The German army, drawing for reserves
Gentlemen! Baries of docu
on the teeming populations of Rasis, and Siberia, would never know defeat, And menta, composed in the righ ef events, this is not idle conjecture mere dresins in your hands. Allow me to placa before you the facts which characteriza
This most Interesting document in the ing in the rest of possiblities-because fint place clears up ons issue never really the Ruman revolution bas shown us how obscure in the eyes of the world the weak and tottering in reality was the
Belgien, whose teritory
dreaded power of the Tear
attride
Sir James Gerard thon quotes Beth Dunn-Hollweg's famous explanation in
Fadliberate violation of the neutrality of Russia berten and half digested, Franes which he admitted that it was contrary
had to would have been an easy prey and to internatione law for Germen troop strategical England, even then joining Franceria to enter Eelgium ant said, that Germany
the low war would have wifar different problem world, y
Committed. Who like we are Bght received to as if the boats were now ailing
for the highest met bal from Cherts
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