AUSTRO-GERMAN INTRIGUES

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14696, 30 August 1915, Page 3

AUSTRO-GERMAN INTRIGUES

PRE-WAR, PLANS. ■; .LONDON, August 28. . , , Tak?ip)iesc'u,' iii a 'telegram- to the Mooting Dost, states: Kiderlin Waechter, ,ip, ; November, 1911, said he desired an agreement, with Britain on the limitation: ofiiaval. armaments. Admiral von ’ TirpitWQjxposed it, and. had the -Kaiser s sup-port-,;-and, the plan dropped. Alsof-Count ;Berchtold,'.in September, 1912, admitted that Austria’s naval nlan.s were directed against -England, who would be outstripped in the .naval .race by the shortage . of;; blnejaokets. , He adds .that he knows definitely that Russia made every effort- ! to-,prevent the Sorbo-Bnlgarian rupture in 1.913, which was due to Austrian intrigues. • Furstenb-urg, the r Austrian Minister .in Bucharest, rubbed his hands and said to ,Takejone;cue after the rupture: . “Wc have done a,; good stroke of' business,” GERMAN PL AN TO CAPTURE VANCOUVER. ' • ... LONDON, -August 28. • Tho Times’ correspondent at ' Toronto says Gorman'plans to seize Vancouver and oilier Pacific coast cities have been rovfefiled to the authorities. 1 -A German hvo-er named Alvcusle ben, who was in ‘Berlin Svhen the War started, telegraphed to a friohd in Vancouver urging !dm to .inaugiirata an. agitation to invite von 'Spec’s., squad ton, then eh (he China coast, +° yisit Vancmi'-er. , A committee was formed and' meetings hold. If the arrangement- succeeded the Gneikoiiau and the Scharnhorst would have attempted to take possession of Vancouver, Victoria, and Prince Rupert. . Prom "Vancouver- the. ' Gormans planned to control the - Pacific 'cable, also the -rente to Vladivostbck.—■ Times and. Sydney Sun Services. NEGOTIATIONS BEFORE THE WAR. AN INTERESTING SIDELIGHT. . ' LONDON, August 28. . - The,“North’’German Gazette,” reply. , urg to. Sir Edward, Grey, publishes ex.-- , tracts from Count Lichnpw-sky’s ro- ■. port, to show that in their parting interview Sir Edward Grey’stated "that the decisive factor was tjie; consideration that Britain , would/hot. suffer .-.greater if .“she held aloof;than'if ehe participated in i.ho wav.’h In the latter /'.case she..would,'be in a-’position to threaten to’retire 1 from tne fight. Sir i Edward-Grey- offered to : act..as_jnediator for it wall-remote from ■his, every ' wish to crush ■ Germany. . -/Count. Lichnowsky rematked-that, the •- 7 role of. , arbitrator would come ’ more . 1 fpiipkly tlianVver.if' Britain:' .weipj neutral. ■ : ■'