GERMANY GUILTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 159, 26 September 1927, Page 1

GERMANY GUILTY

STERN UTTERANCES RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR pjf Cahla. —Press Association.—Copyright Re<'d. noon. PARIS, Sunday. sf. Louis Barthou, Minister of JustjC * e , and Deputy Prime Minister, in unveiling a monument declared that there were some denials which history would never accept from authorities, however high, for they were un able to face facts and documents. Germany had neither pure hands nor a pure heart in 1914, otherwise she would have accepted the of’er of mediation and avoided war. “After submitting to her cruelties, we would never allow her to dishonour our dead, who fell on their native soil, which was devastated by the German spirit of conquest."— A. and N.Z. Reed noon. BRUSSELS, Sunday. Unveiling a memorial to the statesman Berrnaert, the Prime Minister, M. Henri Jaspar, said that Berrnaert was unfortunate to trie in 1912, before the invaders had delivered an innocent country to fire, murder arid ruin, inexcusably shooting old men and women, and children in the cradle. —A. and N.Z. ANOTHER DENIAL STRESEMANN JOINS CHORUS PARIS, Saturday. The Berlin correspondent of “Le Matin' reports an interview he had with the German Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann. The latter said: “[ am surprised at t h a sensation caused by Presilent Hindenburg’s speech at Tannenborg. It contained nothing which Dr. Marx and I have not previously said. “The President :>nly expressed the opinion which is

Jieild throughout Germany when he said we fought to defend ourselves i.iid resent as a serious wrong the doctrine attributing to Germany the tole responsibility for the Great War snd its horrors. We cannot bow before the verdict in a case in which the plaintiffs are also the Judges.”— A, and. N.Z.