HOW THE, WAR BEGAN.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

HOW THE, WAR BEGAN.

AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC DIS-

CLOSURES

THE KAISER'S GUILT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Oct. 15. Mr Morgenthau, former American | Ambassador to Turkey, has made re- j markable disclosures to the "New ■ York World." He says there is direct: evidence that the-, Kaiser willed thoi war and caused it • when it sifted his' purpose and his preparations were [ made. . - !

CABLE NEWS.

Ho said : "Marquis Pallaviricini, the Austrian Ambassador to Turkey, told me en August 18th,, 1914, that the Austrian Emper6r was informed in May that war. was inevitable. "Baron Wangenheim, German Ambassador to Turkey, in an outburst of enthusiasm after..the arrival of the Goeben andßreslau in the Dardanelles, told me that a conference was hold at Berlin early in July, 1914, at which the date of war was' fixed. The Kaiser j

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owned stocks wore quietly pushed iuttf the market. ! "Baron Wangenhcim told me-thai the next time Germany would be eveii more far-sighted and would have at least five years' supply of copper and cotton before" striking." Mr Morganthau later learned that if Germany was victorious she intended to attack America on the ground that sho supplied munitions to tiie Alliesl, and would enforce an indemnity, making Germany tho richest nation in the world. "I have heard the sum fixed at 50,000,000 marks. The Kaiser for years was obsessed of 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 co complete that she" dictated the postponement of Turkey's entry into the war until a powerful wireless plant at Constantinople had been completed, and guns and munitions brought to Turkey!" . : 1 : :

pressed for a conference, at which Baron Wangenheim, General Moltke, Admiral Tirpitz and a few selected leaders of German finance and industry were also present. The Kaiser asked j them if they were ready for war. All j replied in the affirmative, except the j financiers, who said they must have a fortnight in which to sell securities and arrange f.ov loans. Thereafter the financiers were feverishly and secretly busy, while the army marked time. All the great Stock Exchanges- experienced acute depression as German-