REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10108, 16 October 1917, Page 5

REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES.

GERMANY’S I PLANS FOR PRESENT WAR. KAISER’S DREAM OF WORLD-POWER Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received October 16, 9.0 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Mr Morgenthau, a former American Ambassador to Turkey, has made some remarkable disclosures to the World. ID says that there is direct evidence that the Kaiser willed the war, and caused it when it suite dhis purpose, and when his preparations wore made. ... , , “Paliavincini, the Austrian Ambassador to Turkey, told me, on August 18, 1914, says Mr Morgenthan. _ “that the Austrian emperor informed him in May that war was inevitable. Baron Wangenheim, the Gcrman Ambassador to Turkey, in an outburst of enthusiasm, after the arrival of the Ooeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles, told me that a conference was held, in Berlin early in July, 1914, whereat the date of the war was fixed. The. Kaiser pressed for the conference, at which Wangenheim, Moltke, Tirpitz, and a few' selected leaders of German finance and industry were also present. The Kaiser asked them if they were ready for war. All replied in the affirmative except the financiers, who said they must have a fortnight wherein to sell securities and arrange loans. Thereafter financiers were feverishly and secretly busy, while the army marked time. All the great Stock Exchanges experienced an acute depression, as the German-owned stocks were quietly pushed into the market. Wangenheim told me that next time Germany would be even more far-sighted, and have at least five years’ supplies of copper and cotton before striking. Morgenthan later learned that if Germany was victorious, she intended to attack America on the ground that she supplied munitions to the Allies,-and enforce an indemnity, making Germany the richest nation in the l world. I have hoard the sum fixed at 50,000.000,000 marks. The Kaiser was for years'obsessed with the dream of being the centre of a great moving picture, directing and controlling the destinies of the world. Prince Henry was sent to America to consolidate German strength m the United States. Germany’s mastery of the situation in Turkey was so complete that she dictated the postponement of Turkey's entry-into the war until the powerful wireless'plant at Constantinople was'completed and the guns and munitions brought to Turkey.”