KAISER'S WILL FOR WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 7

KAISER'S WILL FOR WAR

DATE PRE-PETERMINED. PREVIOUS CONSULTATION. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Oct. 15. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, former American Ambassador to Turkey, has made re-' markablo disclosures to the New York World. He gays: " There is direct evidence that this Kaiser willed the war, and caused it wlwn it suited his purpose and his preparations were made. The Marquis Pallavincini, Austrian Ambassador to Tu 'tey, told me on August 18, 1914, that the Austrian Emperor informed him in May that war was inevitable. Baron Wangenheim, German Ambassador to Turkey, in an outburst of enthusiasm after tho % rival f the Goeben and Breslau in the D. .danelles, told me that a conference wai held at Berlin early in July, 1914, at which tho date of the war was fixed Tha llaiser pressed for a conference, ■ I v.hieh Baron Wangenjieim, Field Marshal vfv, iloltke, Admiral von Tirpitz, ai'd a few selected leaders of German finance and industry were present. The Kaiser asked them if they were ready for •• ar. All replied in tl.e affirmativo except the financiers, who said that thoy must have a fortnight in which to sell securities and arrange loans. " After that the financiers were feverishly but secretly busy, whilo the arpiy marked time. All the great Stock Exchanges experienced acute depression as German-owned stocks were quietly j pushed into the market. Baron Wangenheim told me that the next time Germany would be'even more far-sighted, and would have at least five years' supplies of copper and cotton before striking." ! Mr. Morgenthau later learned that if Germany were victorious she intended to attack America on the ground that she had supplied munitions to the allies, and ( to enforce an indemnity, _ making Ger- j many the richest nation in the world. He had heard that tho sum was fixed at £2,000,000,000. The Kaiser for years was 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 in 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 a j powerful wireless plant at Constantinople | had been completed and guns and muni-: tions brought to Turkey.