INFAMOUS SLANDERS.

Evening Star, Issue 15778, 15 April 1915, Page 4

INFAMOUS SLANDERS.

HERR BALLIN AS THE KAISER’S MOUTHPIECE. SIR E. GREY, NOT GERMANY, THE ARCH-CRIMINAL. LONDON, April 14. (Received April 15, at 12.30 p.m.) In an interview with the ‘New York World,’ Herr Balliu, whom tho Kaiser has authorised to communicate. Ins own view of the war, said that tho Kaiser has reiterated his oft-repeated assertion that bio 26 years’ rule had proved ho had not wanted wav. Asked whom the German Emperor considered responsible, Herr Ballin answered; England, We honestly believe that_ Sir E. Grey could have stopped the war if ho had declared that England would refuse to go to wiir over the internal question between Serbia and Austria. Inen Russia and France would have compromised with Austria, if Sir E. Grey, on tho other hand, had said England would go to war with Germany, then Austria might have been readier to compromise. By _hi« decision dir E. Grey could have avoided this terrible thing. [Our readers will hardly need to be reminded that both dir E. Grey and the Tsar of Russia asked Germany to submit the A in, tro-,Serbian a (fair to a conference—the Hague or another —and that dir W. E. GcHchen. our Ambassador at Berlin., on the afternoon of August 4, warned the German Chancellor and tho (Minister of Foreign Affairs that Groat Britain would be compelled to declare war if Germany violated Belgian neutrality. Wo almost feel an apology is duo to our readers that our duty compels us to publish this shameful accusation against the. iionor of tho inert transparently honest statesman of his generation. Herr Ballin is the president of tho Hamburg-American Steamship lane.]