GERMANY'S GUILT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 13 February 1917, Page 4

GERMANY'S GUILT.

NOW ADMITTED WAS, THOUGHT OF IN 1911. The Benin Tost, according to the Dus soldorfcT General Anzeigcr, published an article by Baron Zcdlitz on Marshal von Hindenburg's birthday, in which ho says, inter alia: — "If now, in view of the difficulties of supplying the people with food, the Imperial Government is repeatedly reproached with having neglected economic, preparation for the world war, it may be pointed out that the Imperial Chancellor as early as 1911 requested the Ministry of the Interior to begm economic preparation for the war. "In 1914 not much had been done beyond tedious preliminary negotiations Moreover, it may be regarded as certain that responsibility for the optimistic inactivity which meant that *« only began in 1913 the full develop--1 .. i i .„m1 «ea forces, much ment of our land and sea l l -> i+a fMI PCI "l Ull outbreak ot the *™, , 4 ,-c ~nd not laid ax mo in other quarters, .^ ia n ~ ■ ~ rmiiprial Chancellor. door oi lHc iniptt" Beuter.