GERMANY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16505, 5 August 1919, Page 3

GERMANY

• BETHMANN-HOLLWEG. PREACHES A SHORT SERMON, A SUDDEN RESPECT, FOR ALLEGED TREATIES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 5, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. Interviewed in Berlin, Herr Bethmann Hollweg said that under the Gorman Constitution the Chancellor, not the Kaiser, was responsible for the nation’s acts and policies. Herr von Bethmann Hollweg said that he acaccepted the responsibility when he was Chancellor, and had not tried to avoid it. If Holland surrendered the Kaiser to the Allies it would violate- the treaty stipulations between Germany and Holland. The League of Nations ostensibly was created to enforce a higher regard for international treaties. Would the League begin by nullifying its aims, and demanding that Holland disregard her treaty obligations with Germany ?

The German signatories to the Versailles Treaty were merely the means by which the German Government was submitted to the most brutal compulsion of might in history. There had not heen a parallel where cruelty had been continued with such cold calculation, as after this war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW YORK. July 29. Herr Bethmann Hollweg, interviewed in Berlin, added: Does the League of Nations, which was avowedly created to make wars less possible, desire to perpetuate the feeling of a desire for revenge? The German people will do everything in their power to recover ■ their honour, and should the Entente ,insist upon humiliating the Gorman people they may in time react against those whose hatred has made them insensible to all the principles of justice. The Peace of Versailles Balkanised Central Europe, and placed Germany and Austria in a condition of industrial slavery, but Germany will rise again.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.