FRESH EVIDENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 5, 7 January 1916, Page 7

FRESH EVIDENCE.

■<#» Among the papers seized in the judicial inquiry which is going on into the affairs of the German, Arthur Geissler, who was executed the other day in Paris, and was formerly manager of the Societe des Grands Hotels de TEtoile, and head of the Hotel Astoria, is one that shows that official Germany had already decided upon war on July 27, 1911. The letter was written to Geissler by the aide-de-camp on the Princess of Saxe Meiningen at her order, and is in part as follows: “It is going to be hot soon. That is the opinion in well-informed , quarters. Germany and Austria will never again find so favourable an opportunity. Therefore they prefer to attack immediately, rather than later. Although Russia has been in talking so far of her mobilisation, military measures are going forward among us. This, of course, is between you and me. The loosing of a now European war would not take by surprise the administration of either the army or the navy. ’ ’