WHEN THE FINAL RUPTURE CAME

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2241, 29 August 1914, Page 8

WHEN THE FINAL RUPTURE CAME

-German diplomats ■ ■-- ;■■/':;■■./ ;;:^^|^(» ; •■ vU ; ;.;} v (Reo, August. 28;,7.30 p,m.)V '■-. '\i'tXK.^7'i'r' •';.-London,"A-ugust-.'28.. . . . The Foreign. Office has issued the'text '' of the dispatch sent-by Sir William ■■•''Goschen,, British .Ambassador to Ger- ' jnany, to Sir 'Edward.Grey, respecting 'ti|e ; -rapture' of relations with Germany. ;-.un' v :tne"nnal; interviews .with .'. the . German, Imperial ..Chancellor, Herr von : Boih'maiin-Hollweg, and, the Minister of .Fprejgn Affairs', Herr' yon Jagow, the '.latter "declared it -was absolutely neces- - sdry that Gorman^tr&ops. should pass :■; through ?Belgium. matter of ••life' and : advance '. on France by.; (theSquickest', and , easiest ' rway. ..-. • ;, : rsS'v/-**''v./;iVff'-?/.'.-!r,. . ; :Herr.'.vori : ;j:^BpJhmann-Hollweg; was ' greatly the etep , taken by the Britifiir Government ■ was ', -terrible to a degree. Just for the word ■; "neutrality,-" HvhichVhad , eb often: been disregarded in 'war time, just \ for a &rap of paper, Britain' was going to ■ Make war,on a kiid'red nation, who de- .- sirfedlnothyig..better than:to ,be friecds. i,.irith"lief.,;■;-,'■;■/:■ : ; ...;■',■■ :,;'■;■ : .' .' : '.', .Sir William Gbschen protested againßt ' tfie"*in£inuations •that' Britain, xespbnsible for th'o'; : waf," : and' intimated ■ tßat.'.Britaiii would:\keep: ; :'-h.er solemn; compact. ■->'.!'i' : :.ji3'-.'-V! -.-M " p ''.i-." ; .fleur oYoni. Bethmann-BCollweg-. interrjecte3 T : '""But"a't"wh^;pl , 'ice"will tb6" ~compact.be.kept? Has the British Gov-. iernmont,:thought,of .that,?".,. ■ \ ; Sir /William Gbschen replied: that fea7 of the'eonsequences cbiil*hardly, he m'....gardedj as 'an excuse for breaking a ' Bolfinui. engagement,'_,•'.:/' ,,.. ;V 4 ;. „ -.. ':,;,.;, 'SiK'Vyillrani' Gmschen adds!'"Herr von '■ ,was ip-excited- and ' overcome by t"Ee news• of-' our action, and : so that . I refrained -fjrp.m padding,; to : the. final ■;•■'• flame ■ ,' '-.- Following-.tipbn- thV mob's attack on , the British EmTiaasypSfter the declara- ; ',ya.r, sent : a- message -hyan. aide-do-camp;- : regrei;tlng the oc- ' currence.-rb'at.' adding—fAt -, the>■- same . time.ii i 'wTH"'BiT"e"you .6ome'idea,. : 6f tho pe<fpld's 'action in agjunst::her .old. anles ? oJ?w aterloby and' .tn&Kaiser ■ bege i yott r^':tellr the.lSrigtthjit.'he has bepn proiid v o'f•' the" tit18...6,f ! j British. FieldrMtir- .... sha J . l)iit. her mils t inp w. divest ■' .himself. ■ -ef"-"that'-'-title.''•"■ '' r *.;:. ~' : '''~-:'-■■?. '.''."■.'■.'