THE WAR GUILTY KAISER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19811, 1 December 1919, Page 8

THE WAR GUILTY KAISER.

■ ♦— . PRE-WAR PLOTTING. MOTES AND MEMORANDA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright- •’ The Times " bervice. (Received December 1. 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. The cx-Kaisev disclosed lus real character and bis sinister slinre in (he plotting at Potsdam on the ove of the war by his om'wHerod and contemptuous attitude ton aids England in a remarkable series of autograph memoranda and annotations on official correspondence discovered m Berlin as a result ol llcrr Kautsky’s investigations. The documents show that Germany began her preparations tor war on July (5. The ex-Kaiser incited Austria in tiie strongest terms to attach • and crush Serbia He plotted to thro.. | on Russia the odium of the eventual wider coullict. Sir E. Grey’s mild preliminary intervention mot with immediate resentment. The ex-Kaisei wrote to Herr vou Jagow (Foreign Minister) stating that “Grey must be told plainly that 1 won’t stand any nonsense.” Following the failure of Germany » desperate bid to secure Britain’s neutrality, m which the Chancellor hinted at the possibility of later naval agreement. Prince Lichnowsky reported trial Sir E. Grey regarded the ■ increasingly serious. The ex-Kaiser commented: "H is the oig s i..H ; of English Pharisaism I’ve ever seen, With such scoundrels I’ll never conclude a naval agreement. Grey is an arch base deceiver, mephistopheloan, but truly English.” Learning that Britain might be unable to stand aside, the 'tM-Kaiser’s fury was unbounded. He described the British a* a pack of hucksters. “Grey is trying to separate Germany and Austria. Ho could keep France and Russia quiet if he cared to send a single sharp word to Paris and St Petersburg. Ho threatens us instead, the low hound. The responsibility for peace or war now rests with England alone.'' In a later memoranda the ex-Kmser bitterly wrote“ Edward the Seventh is‘dead, but ho is still stronger than I who am alive.”