BRITAIN'S LAST WORD.
DIPLOMAT'S INTERVIEW.
GERMAN MIS-STATEMENT.
(Received September 17. 1.30 a.m.).
London, September 16.
Replying to a correspondent, Sir E. Grey states that his parting interview with Prince Lichnowsky, who was German Ambassador to Britain before the war, was a private one. He denies a German newspaper's report of it, and says he did not offer to mediate.
The North German Gazette, one of the semi-official papers, published extracts from a report by Prince Lichnowsky, to show that in his parting interview Sir Edward Grey stated that the decisive factor was the consideration that Britain would not suffer greater if she held aloof than if she participated. In the latter case she would be in a postion to threaten to retire from the fight. Sir Edward Grey offered to undertake mediation, and assured the Prince that it was remote from every wish of Britain to crush Germany. Prince Lichnowsky remarked that the role of arbitrator would come more quickly in the event of Britain being neutral.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16025, 17 September 1915, Page 8
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