MADMAN TIRPITZ.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 July 1923, Page 9

MADMAN TIRPITZ.

Cause of the War. EKARDSTEIN’S PLAIN SPEAKING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT (Received 11,10 p.m., July 10.) LONDON, July 10. The “Daily Express” states that Baron con Ekardstein, who was Chancellor at the Gorman Embassy in London before Bernstorff, has returned to London to arrange for the publication of a book covering the ten years before the war. Baron Eckardstein is no longer the dashing Prussian Guardsman he was, but is now grey and bearded and as pro-British as when he said that Britain could put 4,000,000 men in the field. Interviewed, Baron Eckardstein said —“I have dealt with the events leading up to tlie war in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war would never have happened if that madman von Tirpitz had not hood-

winked the Kaiser into a policy of

1 aggressive naval expansion. I “At the outbreak of the war, the ' Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying ! that Britain could win. I had pointed ; out that Germany’s policy would inj evitably drive Britain into an alliance j with France and Russia but this advice 1 was ignored. The fact that I had liven in Britain and the United States and thoroughly understood Anglo-Saxon psychology counted for nothing. Germany’s policy during the war, as previously, was dictated by madmen-.”