ONE ROGUE LESS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 February 1917, Page 3

ONE ROGUE LESS

Count Tschirsky should, like. Lady Macbeth; '■ have died hereafter," for his demise removes one of the small group who really knew the secret of the outbreak of the war. As German Ambassador in Vienna he approved'and revised even if he did not actually dictate, the insulting terms of the ultimatum to Serbia; and no one worked harder to wreck all counsels of moderation and mediation. A diplomatist in the worst sense of the word, ho strove, with infinite pains, to shoulder the world into the abyss. Next, probably, to the Kaiser himself, history will write him down as the villain of the piece.