BEFORE THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 July 1923, Page 5

BEFORE THE WAR.

-. . „ . I BOOK BY GERMAN. | CRITICISM OP YON TIRPITZ. j ttY CABLB—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT LONDON, July 10. The Daily Express states that Baron yon Ekardstein, who was Chancellor of the German Embassy in London before Count Bernstorff, has returned to London to arrange for the publication of a book covering the ten years before the war. Baron Ekardstein is no longer a dashing Prussian Guardsman, but is now grey and bearded. He was re- ' garded as pro-British when he said that Britain could put four million men in the field. Interviewed, Baron Ekardstein said: "I have dealt with the events leading . up to the war-in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war could never have happened if that madman Yon Tirpitz had not hoodwinked the Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of war the Kaiser had me im- : prisoned for saying Britain could win. .: "I had pointed out that Germany's I policy would inevitably drive Britain : into an alliance with France and Russia, ' but this advice was ignored. The fact i that I had lived in Britain and the ; United States and thoroughly under- ; stood Anglo-Saxon psychology counted for nothing. Germany's policy during i the war, as previously, was dictated by j madmen." ■ j •j ' ' ■ ■ i