A WHITE PAPER.

Evening Star, Issue 16033, 9 February 1916, Page 3

A WHITE PAPER.

. LONDON, Febniarv 7. A White Paper has been issued’ containing a selection from the papers found on Von Papen, and also fac-simiies of manj cheques. One letter from, the IPscor.ton Gescllschaft, at Potsdam, to Von Papen, dated July 25, 1914, stated that Austria' would probably declare war, a postscript a doing: “We hove never before seen such preparations for wav as at present.” In a; letter from Berlin, dated Spetember 29, 1914, signed “Filipino.” are requests for Von Papen l to arrange for wide publicity being given to certain newspaper articles. The correspondent stated.- “At first things went off’ at a giant’s pace; ■now the Austrians are fighting well, but their leadership is bad, ami they had to retreat to the Carpathians, This will reset on the Balkans, and Italy's attitude is correspondingly bad ; but our troops wili pull the matter through all right. Jhe war will probably drag over the winter.” Several letters show that’ K. H. Fox, understood to he the general manager of Wildman’s Magazine and News Agency, played an important part i n the American Press campaign from Berlin. Fox. writing to Von Papen, expressed his conviction that the misunderstandings between the two countries were due to poor advice and the warped viewpoint of the American Embassy, . Prince IT. Von Hazenfeldt (of Washington), in an undated letter, told Von Papen that his (Hazenfeldt’s) wife hail written to say : “ Bulgaria will certainly join us after the haiwest at the end of August,” and that Rumania would remain inactive. Herr Dnmba, writing to Von Papen on September 1, 1915, displays some anxiety about the Dardanelles holding out. and added : “ Everything ended happily. ’ The Washington people already think they hear the hells of peace, hut we haven’t “ot that length yet.” °