EX-KAISER'S TRIAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 58, 2 December 1919, Page 7

EX-KAISER'S TRIAL

ARRANGEMENTS NOT YET COMPLETE

FRESH REVELATIONS

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London, November 28. The Attorney-General states Hint arrai:gements for tlio trial of Uio ex-Kaiser have not been completed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS

HIS SINISTER RESPONSIBILITY

London, November 27. Thn ex-Kaiser disclosed his real character ,md his sinister shove in the n'nttin? at Potsdam on the eve of the war. His embittered nml contemptuous altitude to England is revealed in a remarkable series of aiitofrrnpli memoranda and annotations on official corresnondence which have been discovered in Berlin ns 1-he result of investigations by Herr Knulsky. The documents show that Germany began preparations for war on July C The ex-Kaiser incited Austria in tho strongest terms tn attack and crush f-'erbi'n and plotted to throw on Russia the odium of the eventual and wider conflict. Viscount (then Sir Edward) Grey's mild preliminary intervention met witii "immediate resentment. The■ e.tKjiiser tfrote, to Herr von .Tagow: drey must be told plainly that I won't stand for any nonsense." Following; the failure of Germany.« desporate bid to secure neutrality, ■fn which the Chnncellor hinted at tho possibility later.of a naval agreement, Prince Lichnowsky (Genniui. Ambassador at London) reported that ViFcount Grey regarded the situation .19 increasinely serious. The ex-Kaiser mmniMitod: 'It is the biggest piece of English phansai«m I've ever seen. With such scoundrels I'vill never conclude a nnynl agreement. Grey is a base nrclwlecnivpv. Meplustonhelian, but truly English." Learning that Britain nn<rlit not be nh!- to stand aside, the ex-Ivniser s fury ri' unbounded. He describe! th» Bntj ish a= "n pack of hucksters. Grey, , he eirid, "is trvinpr to separate Germany and Austria. Tla'could keep France and RuHa Quiet if he eared to spnd a sm?le plia'ni word to Paris and St. Petersburg Fn threatoneil us instead, the low hound. The-re.spn-ns : bilitv for pence or war now riw-ts on England «lone." , Tn « Inter memorandum, the cs-Rniser bitterlv wrote: 'T/lwu.vd the Seventh is dead. T>nt ho k still stronger than I who am alive."-"The Times.'