CAUSES OF WAR
ENCIRCLEMENT MYTH
GERMAN THEORY DENIED
MR, ASQUITH'S RESEARCHES.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPTRIOHT-.)
(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLH ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 15th July
The " Sunday Times " has begun" the publication of excerpts from Mr. Asquilh's. forthcoming book, entitled " Genesis of the War." Mr. Asquith deals exhaustively with the legend of the encirclement of Germany prior to war with which the Kaiser was obsessed, and prints letters disposing of tlio story that a: secret understanding was arrived at in 1897 between Britain, France, and the United States against Germany. The letters includo one from Sir William Tyrrell, Counsellor of the British Embassy at Washington, statiil? that the foreign Office archives had been searched and nothing found to support the accusation. Mr. Hughes (American Secretary of State) wrote ta Mr. Asquith that the story of a secret treaty whs wholly unfounded. M. Poincare stated that the calumnies of the ox-Kaiser were really contemptible,- a.s there was no trace at the Quai crOrsay'bf the secret agreement.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 13, 16 July 1923, Page 7
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163CAUSES OF WAR Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 13, 16 July 1923, Page 7
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