LICHNOWSKY'S REPORT TO THE KAISER.
"UNLIKELY THAT BRITAIN W.OULD GO TO AVAR." New York, May ail. ' Mr. W. R. Thayer, a leading, historian, in a .letter to the New York "Times," discloses authentic information that Prince-' Lichnowskj, when leaving England in 1914, told Admiral Hood:— "The Kaiser asked rno to ascertain whether Britain would participate, if Germany declared war. I replied that it was unlikely that Britain would go to war on any account, because it had ceased to bo a martial nation and cared only f6r money and luxury; could not prepare. a useful force in less than 'n year; and had civil war impending in Ireland. Tho British were eo unmilitary that they allowed the suffragettes to intimidate them. '. I have no doubt that report influenced' tho -Kaiser to declai-R war, so I know ivhat my fiito is likely , to be."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 7
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