GERMANY’S WAR GUILT

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 75, 21 December 1921, Page 5

GERMANY’S WAR GUILT

DENIED BY EX-KAISER AND VON HINDENBURG BLAME THRUST UPON ENTENTE By Tetesraoh—Pre«i Arcaoiatlon-OonyrleM Londo - ’, December 19. A significant commentary on Germany’s attitude regarding reparations is afforded 'by the publication in the “Deutsche Allgemeino Zeitung” of correspondence between tho cx-Kaiser and von Hindenburg. Writing on March 30, von Hindenburg declares that the Versailles Treaty aimed at the annihilation of Germany* The fiction of Germany’s responsibility for the war was the foundation of this policy. The Germans wore terribly penalised for the admission of Germany’s responsibility, wrung, against their conviction, from the German representatives nt Versailles, and for the untrue admission of Germany’s guilt made by von Simons in London. Replying on April 5, the ex-Kaiser calls God to witness that he did his utmost, consistent with the_security and integrity of the Fatherland, to avoid the war. “To talk of Germany’s guilt for the war is out of the question. There is no longer any doubt that not Germany, but tho Entente, methodically prepared for the war and deliberately brought it about." —Reuter. Berlin, December 19. Von Hindenburg has sent correspondence from the ex-Kaiscr to tho Press. In April tho cx-Kaiser wrote protesting that he would not have abdicated except to avert a bloody civil war; hut the sacrifice was vain. “The truth will come like an avalanche. The Entente methodically prepared and procured the war. It coerced Germany into an untrue acknowledgment of her guilt, and demanded my trial. No sacrifice would have been too great for me. but the tribunal where the Entente was plaintiff and judge would he merely an arbitrary instrument, not an organ of justice. I recognise the penal jurisdiction of no enrthlv judge, however highly placed.”— “The Times."