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THE EX-KAISER'S GUILT, nd that "any premature-recall of our Fleet might cause un paziness, and be regarded as suspicious, PROVED OUT OF HIS OWN especially in England." But on
MOUTH.
the 25th the Kaiser-ordered the Fleet, which wasaisen, to be ready to return hame, although the
BRITAIN'S RECOVERY.
TRIBUTE BY AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.
The American Ambassador There has been made available for English readers the full taxt Imperial Chancellor counselled (Mr. J. W. Davis) who recently of the report by the official him to wait. The latter's telegram, laft England for two months" hell-
German delegate of the
Re-with the Kaiser's additions,day at home, was entertained at luncheon by the Amarican Lun- publican Government who was runs :- appointed to examine the secret The Chief of the Admiralty cheon Club in London. Mr. J archives of the Berlin Foreign Staff of the Navy informs me that B. MacAfee presided.
The Lord Chancellor, propos- Office with a view to ascerta ̈ning Your Majesty has in view of a what light they shed on the Wolff telegram Unbeard ofing the toast of "The American origina of the Great War. W.), given orders to the Fleet to Ambassador,” said that Mr. Davis the was going back to America as Extracts from Kautsky's investi-prepare immediately for
watched with gations have already appeared in homeward journey. Incredible one who had the Press, and it has been imputation! Never entered my anxiety and deep insight the acknowledged by German Socia-head!!! On my Ambassador's re-affairs of Europe in the time of lists that Allied opinion has part of the mobilisation in Bel.crisis. He realized, as his coun
justitied been
in balding grade! This may entail Russia's trymen, to whatever school of the ex Kaiser personally re- mobilisation, will entail Austria's! politics they belonged, were realis- sponsible. The citation of docu- In this case. 1 must have my ing more and more, that in tho ments which passed through his forces on land and sea together. In days that lay in front the United hands and bear notes and com- the Baltic there is not a single States of America had the power ments in his own handwriting ship?! Moreover, it is my custom to render to civilization services clinchesthe argument. Diplomacy to take military measure, not not less than those rendered in
dark days of the is accustomed to vell its real according to a Wolf telegram but the
The difficulties to be intent and purpose in ambiguous according to the general situation. (Cheers.)
were diferent and equivocal language, but the and the civilion Chancellor "eiv-faced
those during the war. Kaiser's marginal reflections use ilian underlined by the Kaiser) from
bat it was impossible to be a directness and force of expres-has not yet grasped:}
deemed
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MISSION OF INTERPRETATION.
The American Ambassador said
sion which leave no doubt as to On July 29th the Tsar sent a blind to the gravity of European his meaning. This spectacle of telegram begging the Kaiser, "in conditions to-day. He profound- ao Emperor in undress" was the rame of our old friendship." 15 believed the American nation so unedifying that the German to do what he could to prevent as a whole completely realised In the extent of the peril to-day and Government sought to shelve the his ally from going too far.
the of the close association with that publication of the book because what does that consist)?" of the effect it was bound to Kaiser queries in the margin. On peril of the very maintenance of rxercise not only at home, but in July Zed, before the delivers the fabric of Europeso civiliza- He believed they realized foreign rountries. As Secretary of the ultimatum. Lichnowsky, tion. of State a? the Foreign the German Ambassador in that they and they alone, in Ofice. Kautsky
it London
Sir asociation with ourselves, had reported that desirable to publish the facts Edward Grey hoped that Ger-the strength and the force to before the signing of the Pence many would use her influence in enable the world to cope 85 with the social, Treaty in order to lay before Vienna to present demands which victoriously
and revolutionary the world the clearest evidence could not be fulfilled being made economie. that the German Government of Serbia. On this passage the difficulties of the present as with which
the menace of Germany during sbould conduct these Kaiser writes: - negotiations bad nothing what- How would that come within the war. (Cheers.) ever in common with that which my province? It does not concezp had declared war." but his col-me at all!" What is the meaning leagues thought otherwise, and of "cannot be folilled?" The that he was returning to the instead they issued a milk-and-scoundrels have carried on their United States after an absence of water White Book in June 1919. agitation with murder, and mast two years to receive information The translation. of Kantsky's be humbled! This is a monstrous of what had occurred there during hook is rather perfunctory, more piece of British impudence. It is that period and to carry back care might have been exercised no: my duty to prescribe with him such information as be in the printing of it, and it lacks Grey to His Majesty the Emperor might be able of conditions on an inder; but there it is-for regarding the preservation of his this side of the humanity to scan and digest. honour.. This ought, bow-functions of a diplomat, as be After some general historical evar, to be told very seriously conceived them, were to act as an redections, Kautsky comes to and clearly to Greg so that he interpreter between nationsreiber repor: addressed by Tschirschky, may see that I stand no trifling than of nations (chrers), and bel the German Ambassador at Gres is making the mistake of must endeavour to carry in his Vienna, to the Imperial Chan-placing Serbia on the same level mind the conditions both of the cellor at the end of June 1914-as Apstria and other Great coaptry from which he came and shortly after the crime of Powers. This is unheard of those of the country to which hel Serajero-saying that he was Serbia is a band of robbers, which was accredited. When he came persuade Austria must be laid hold of for their here 18 months ago he found a against taking over-hast steps crimes. I shall interfere in leountry
for that bad mäde
trying
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water.
The
in the matter. The Kaiser's nothing which the Emperor alone four years unparalleled exertions Icomment is
is entitled to decide. I have been in the mightiest war the world Who gave him any authority expecting this dispatch. and had ever known. It was filled to do that? That is very stupid! does not surprise me. Regular with houses hardly one of which' So afair of his, since it is pure-British way of thinking, and con-had escaped the visit of the Great Austria's affair what she descendingly commanding tons. Destroyer. Commerce was dis thinks ht to be in this matter, which I will not have
located in large pan, "and ioperi Afterwards they will say, if On July 29 Lichnowsky re-abandoned, because of the major things go
"Germany ported that Sir Edward Grey demands of the country's safety would not let us!" Tschirschky regarded the situation as comics and security. He had seen the must kindly avoid this nonsense. more and more to a head.. people lay aside the armour which Serbia must be settled with, and
The greatest and most scand- had clothed them on the field of that soon.
alous piece of English Pharisaism battle and turn without hesitation This passage clearly shows that that I have ever seen! I shall to the beavy task of peace. They Germany not merely had fore-never make a nasal agreement tad made a commercial and fin- knowledge of the Austrian ultima- with such rascals.
ancial recovery unequalled by tur. but was at the back of it. The Regarding Sir Edward Grey any similar people in a similar German White Book of 1919 dis statement that, so long as the dis-emergency in the pages of pated the assertion that & Crown pute was confined to Austria and history. He would tell his fellow- Council at Potsdam on July 5th. Russia. Britain would stand aside. countrymen, too, bow this people, 1914. decided on "war with Serbia. the Kaiser's annotation is:- so burdened by loss, had not or, according to another version. This means are to leave shrunk for a moment from bear- ontheworld-war." Kautsky proves Austria in the lurch. Most meaning their share in the great work it by adducing a memorandum ard Mephistophelean!
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by the Under-Secretary of State.genuinely English.
But of reconstruction that lay outsii e He their boundaries, and that they
von der Bussche, which says has been insincere all these years had from the day of the Armistice that it was resolved, in prepara-down to his latest speech. laboured onceasingly to build up tion for all emergencies, to take Herr von Kleist, who was sent again the prosperity of the world. preparatory steps for a war," and on a special mission to Rome to Cheers.)
GENERAL NEWS.
£2,000,000 LEFT BY LÜRD INVERCLYDE.
on the following day the Kaiser seek Baly's intervention, reported The Chairman, on behalf of the had a conversation at Potsdam that "Even Giolitti, who is friend-American Lancheon Club, pre- with Capelle, who was acting for ly to the Triple Alliance." said sented the American Ambassador Tirpitz, at that time absent. These there was no liability to give with early editions of books by conversations" were not pro-active belp." "The unmitigated Milton and Ben Jonson and à perly Crown Councils. According scoundrel!" comments the volume of Christian Prayers pub- to all appearances Williaro Kaiser, who to a letter from the fished to 1500.
"Tby! decided independently in this King of Italy signed. fatal boar. What followed roight Brother and Ally. Vittorio Em- rather be described as & Council anuale," added to the word Ally War. It might also be called a Impudence," and to the name conspiracy against Serbia and of the King" Rascal." The notes Russia at least, if not agains show the extraordinary levity and the peace
the of the world." recklessness with which That the Kaiser did not merely Kaiser viewed war, even when approve this policy, but urged ite Russia had become involved. "If Personal estate valued speedy execution. is shown by Austria-Hongary devours Serbia, £2,017,798 was left by Lord his annotations on Tchirschky's we shall go to war with her." Inverclyde, chairman of the ship- reports from Vienns. The latter the Russian Foreign Minister ping firm of G. and J. Burns, Ltd. reported on July 10 a convers said. "Well, go ahead is the and a director of the Cunard ation with Coast Berchtold, the Kaiser's retort.
Company. His holding in G. and Austrain Foreign Minister. in Summing up, Kautsky says J. Burns amounts to £1,826,886, which he said that it would be that the documents, “show that and his steam yacht Beryl is very disagreeable if Serbia among the peoples who were valued at £25,000. His father, accepted all the demande mede sacrificed to William's war policy the first Lord Inverclyde, who of her, and that he was thinking the German nation heads the died in 1901; left £1,038,300, and what demands could be presented list. Misled by the statesmen of his brother, the second Lord which would be completely im- the Hohenzollerns and the Inverclyde, who died in 1905, laft possible for Serbia to accept. In] Habsburgs, the German people £235,455. the margin the Kaiser wrOLS **** were made the willing instru- Evacuate the Banjak! Then you of their plans, and
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must by all means get this back position. The great majority ous German Socialists and paci- at once, and so prevent the union of the German, people felt their fists already. recognised and of Serbia and Montenegro, sad solidarity, almost up to the very openly-proclaimed during the Serbia's reaching the san.
end of the war, and in many war should now at last be so- The Austrian ultimatum was cases down to our days, with knowledged, unreservedly, with delivered on the 23rd, and expired those who duped them sad led out any 'if" or " but," or palliativa
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