Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 96, 26 April 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

A FAMOUS TELEGRAM. “RUSSIA ALONE FORCES THE WAR UPON EUROPE." ANOTHER “SCRAP OF PAPER!” Times and Sydney Sun Service. London. April 2-1. The Times envois the fact that Mr John Walter, managing proprietor of the Times, received a cable from Herr Baltin from Berlin on Sunday, August 2 declaring “Russia alone forces the war upon Europe.” Knowing that Sir Edward drey would he explaining the position on Monday, The Times held over the information, not being prepared to anticipate his statement with misleading news from an interested German quarter. This week, Herr Ballin wrote to the Cologne Gazette, declaring that such a letter as Mr Walter printed as the text of the letter, M'r Walter had never received. The Times now prints the full message which reached Mr Walter through the London manager of the HamhnrgAmerica Coy, the message saying: “If Walter declines, yon must induce another first-class papier to publish the article in a prominent position where it would he seen by the enemy in August 2”. While The Times was considering the matter, a telegram from Berlin addressed to the London representative of the Wolff Bureau, informing him that the Times was publishing Herr Ballin’s statement, which was accidentally delivered at The Times office, and disclosing that Herr Ballin meant to have the statement telegraphed hack to Germany with a request that authority he delivered for its publication in the leading English newspapers.