RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2693, 11 July 1923, Page 5

RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR.

FASTENED ON VON TIRPITZ •- FORMER AMBASSADOR TO PUBLISH BOOK. HIS WARNING IGNORED. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON , July 10. 3 The " Daily Express " states that . Baron von Eckardstein, who was Chang cellor at the German Embassy in ! London before Count BernstorfC, has returned to London to arrange for th e , publication of a book covering the s ten years before the war. Von . Eckardstein is no longer a dashing . Prussian Guardsman, but is now grey ■_ and bearded. H 0 was regarded as Y pro-British when he said Britain , could put 4,000,000 men in the field. . On being interviewed, von Ekardstein said: "I have dealt with the events c leading up to the war in a manner , which may displease many of my . countrymen. The war would never , have happened if that madman von . Tlrpitz, had not hoodwinked the \ Kaiser into a policy of aggressive . naval expansion. At the outbreak of war, the Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying Britain could win. I had f pointed out Germany's policV would , inevitably drive Britain into an alJ liance with Franco and Russia, but ) this advice was ignored. The fact that I had lived in Britain and the ( United States and thoroughly understood the Anglo-Saxon psychology, ; counted for nothing. Germany'? , policy during the war, as previously, J was dictated by a madman."