TREATY OF VERSAILLES.
GERMANY’S WAR GUILT. NATIONAL REPUDIATION. NOT SOLELY RESPONSIBLE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) «AUa..uii4li i A-.kclmi.i. BERLIN, June 27. The President, Marshal von Hindenburg, and the members of the Cabinet, have signed the following manifesto to the German nation on the occasion of the 10th. anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles: — “To-day is a day of mourning. Ten years have passed since the German negotiators were compelled to sign a document that was bitterly disappointing to all friends of justice and genuine peace.
"The treaty has weighed heavily on all sections of the nation, upon its intellectual and economic ufe, upon the labours of the workmen and of the peasants. Intense work and wholehearted unity have been "necessary to prevent the effects of the treaty from threatening the existence of the Fatherland.
“Germany signed without acknowledging her war guilt, and we repudiate the charge that Germany was solely responsible for the war, in the firm trust that a true pence, based upon the unanimous conviction of free and equal nations, will prevail in the future-”
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 7
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