THE GREAT WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18821, 11 July 1923, Page 5

THE GREAT WAR

EVENTS THAT LED UP TO IT BARON EKARDSTEIN WRITES A BOOK By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. Received July 10, 11.10 p.m. LONDON, July 10. The Daily Express states that Baron Von Ekardstein, who was Chancellor at the German Embassy in London before Count Berns torn, lias returned to .‘London to arrange for rhe publication •of a book covering ten years before [the war. Baron Eckardstein is no (longer a dashing Prussian Guardsman, jbut is now grey and bearded. He |was regarded as pro-British when he lie said Birtain could put four million in the field. Interview’d, Baron Eckardstein said: “I have dealt with events leading up to the war ir a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war would never have happened if that madman Von Tirpitz had not hoodwinked the Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of the war the Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying Britain could win. 1 had pointed out Germany ’s policy would inevitably drive Britain into alliance with France and Russia, but this advice was ignored. The fact that 1 had lived in Britain and the United States, and thoroughly understood Anglo-Saxon pyschology, counted for nothing. France’s policy during the war, as previously was dictated by madmen.”