"SCRAP OF PAPER" A REPLY TO HOLLWEG

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1915, Page 7

"SCRAP OF PAPER" A REPLY TO HOLLWEG

"FLAT CONTRADICTION OF PLAIN FACTS." LONDON, 27th January. Sir Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretai-y) is not surprised that Herr yon Bethmann-Hollweg is anxious to explain away the "scrap of paper" phrase which tends to debase the legal and moral currency of civilisation, but his new arguments are a, flat contradiction of plain facts. [Herr yon Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, in an interview, explained that the "scrap of paper" phrase simply meant that the Treaty had lapsed owing to Belgium's forfeiture of neutrality. Britain's intervention was due to a desire not to see a victorious and stronger Germany emerge from the war. England had destroyed a considerable part of the neutrals' trade.] AN AMERICAN CARTOON. WASHINGTON. 27th January. The New York HeraJd cartoons Herr yon Bethmann-Hollweg trying to burn a scrap of paper, which proves incombustible. NAILED TO THE COUNTER. (Received January 23, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 27th January. Sir Edward Grey's statement dealing with Herr Bethmann-Hollweg's explanation of "the scrap of paper," traverses that and other statements seriatim. The newspapers are widely discussing this last exposure of Germany's misrepresentation, which is now nailed to the counter.