EX-KAISERS BOOK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 23 March 1921, Page 5

EX-KAISERS BOOK

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WAR I I’RTJIKIi ACC USA I'IONN AGAINST ENGLAND (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian it N.Z. Cubic Association) LONDON. Mail'll 22. The Manchester Guardian coniine,"s Dm ex-Kaiser’s notes, Me declare'. Dun the English preparation for mobilisation began in Dune. 1914, while Die finances were mobilised m Aprd. Tiie British, l-’b-m was mobilised at IVirilaml on duly lADi. Tim proposal in refer the dispute U> Dm I lagim was regarded as an aifenipb by Russia e) gain time, lie says Sir l-l. Grey told Eleininwski mi Duly 2!hh : •■•Should ( 11‘1‘ina nv become iiUnlved, and tin'll I'ranee, there is too numb ai strike lor uw '.o -laud aside 1 . ’’ Captured Russian mobilisation orders for Duly With revealed that inoliilisation was infemleil againsi. Germ any at eleven on iiie night of Die DDL After asking Russia to cease war 'ire pa radons Germany asked Raids wheDmr France would remain neutral ! J Tim answer wa.s Unit I'rane' would do what her interests dmlaled. Dir Is. Grov then informed Brussels that he expected Belgium to uphold her neutrality. Sir K. Grey mi August 4th demanded Die cessation of the Gorman advance on Belgium or he would defend tin* kilter. 'I his was England's declaration of war.