GERMANY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
LONDON, August 10
. M. Take Jonescu, in a telegram, states: "While in London I saw the German Ambassador almost daily. I am in a position to know that Berlin knew and approved the ultimatum to Servia. Yon Tschirchky helped to draft the ultimatum, which it was believed Servia could not accept, but the Austro-Germans feared she would accept. Despite all, Lichnowsky personally desired peace, and asked me on the eve of the presentation of the ultimatum to telegraph to M. Passitch advising acceptance, promising him, in Lichnowsky's name; that the hard terms would be modified on application." M. Jonescu affirms that Lichnowsky assured him, on the 26th July, 1914, that England would not abandon neutrality. Jonescu replied:—"England will never allow Prance to be crushed." Lichnowsky replied: "I am not as certain of that as you are."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 7
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