"GERMANY WILL RISE AGAIN"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 7

"GERMANY WILL RISE AGAIN"

HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG ON THE PEACE TREATY

KAISER'S RESPONSIBILITY

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

(Rec. August 4, 5.5 p.m.)

New York, July 29,

The New York "Sun's" Berlin correspondent interviewed Herr von BethmannHollweg (late German Chancellor), who said: "Under the German constitution, the Chancellor and not the Kaiser is responsible for the nation's acts and policies. I accepted the responsibility when Chancellor, and I have not tried to avoid that responsibility. If Holland surrenders the ex-Kaiser to the Allies it will violate the treaty stipulations between Germany and Holland. Tho League of Nations was ostensibly created to enforce a. higher regard for international treaties. Will the League begin by nullifying those aims in demanding that Holland shall disregard her treaty obligations to Germany? The German signatures to tho Versailles Treaty merely moan that the German Government has submitted to the meat brutal compulsion of might. History has no parallel whore cruolty has been continued with such cold calculation as after tho end of this war. "Does the League of Nations, which was avowedly oreated to mako ware less possible, desire to perpetuate the feeling and desire for revenge? The Gorman people will do everything in their power to recover their hoiiour. Should the Entente Powers insist upon humiliating the German people, they may in timo react against those whoso hatred lias mado tliem insensible to all principles of justice. Tho Peace of 'Versailles has Balkanised Central Europe, find placed German-Austria in a of ii.dustrial slavery, but Germany will rise again."—AU6.-N.Z. Cable Assn.