WHO STARTED THE WAR ?

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 5

WHO STARTED THE WAR ?

DISCLOSURES OF POTSDAM

PLOT,

WILHELM IN HIS REAL CHARACTER.

GREY MUST BE TOLD, “I WON’T STAND ANY NONSENSE.”

BRITISH DESCRIBED AS “PACK

OF HUCKSTERS.”

’United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 27. The ex-Kaiser disclosed his real character and his sinister share in plotting at Potsdam on the eve of the war by embittered contemptuous attitude towards England in a remarkable series of autograph memoranda and annotations on official correspondence discovered in Berlin as a result of Kautiky’s investigations. The documents show that Germany began preparations for war on July 6th. The ex-Kaiser inv/tetl Austria in the strongest terms to attack and mush Serbia. He plotted to throw on Russia the odium of the eventual wider conflict.

Sir Edward, Grey’s mild preliminary intervention met with immediate resentment. The ex-Kaiser wrote Yon Jagow, stating that Sir Edward Grey must lie told plainly, “I won’t stand any nonsense.' 7 ’ A t Following the failure of Germany's bill to secure Britain’s neutrality, wherein the Chancellor hinted at the possibility of a later naval agreement, Count Lichnowsky reported that Sir Edward Grey regarded the situation as increasingly serious. The ex-Kaiser commented : “It is the biggest piece of English Pharisaism I have ever seen. With such scoundrels I’ll never conclude a naval agreement. Grey is an archbase deceiver and Mephistophelean, but truly English.” Learning that Britain might be unable to stand aside, the ex-Kai-ser’s fury was unbounded. He described the British as a pack of hucksters, “Grey is trying to separata Germany and Austria. He could keep France, and Russia quiet if he cared to send a single sharp word to Paris and. St. Petersburg. He threatens us instead—the low hound. The responsibility for peace or war now jests with Eiigland alone.” In a later memoranda the ex-Kai-ser bitterly wrote: “Edward the Seventh is dead, but he is still stronger than I who am alive.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.