ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ENGLAND
BLOOD-GUILT AND STRANGLING
OF COMMERCE
(Press Assn.—Reed. 9 a.m.)
LONDON, August 20
Count Yon Bethman Hollweg in the Reichstag charged the Allies with blood-guiltiness, and concealing the real situation. England already had abandoned her fable of fighting for Belgium. She had strangled commerce and compelled neutral ships on the'-.high seas to take British crews aboard. She occupied the Greek islands. He accused Russia and England of hyprocrisy in regard to the Persian settlement, and the late King Edward VII of promoting a policy for . Germany's isolation. It was calumny to accuse Germany of being guilty of the war because she refused England's proposal of a' conference. War became unavoidable solely by the Russian mobilisation. Peace was only possible by the Germans' inviolable position. England's policy of the balance of power must disappear. He continued, "We must gain the freedom of the seas. -It is not for England to rule over them but that they shall serve equally well all peoples."
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1915, Page 3
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