GERMAN WAR MAKERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 February 1919, Page 4

GERMAN WAR MAKERS.

o KAISER'S TREACHERO US GAME. LONDON, February 14 A white paper has been published ' containing Professor Oman's survey iof all the Allied documents leading ! to the declaration of war. He says ] that the Central Powers did not in- | spire the Serajevo murder, but made !it an excuse for war. Serbia was innocent of the Serajevo affair. Professor Oman shows that there was no British Minister in Belgrade !at the time of the Austrian ulti- ! matum. so the British Government ! was ignorant of many essential I points. Austria deliberately post poned the ultimatum until Presidents Poincare land M. Yiviani were on the high seas after a visit to Petrograd, in order to make it difficult for j France to put on diplomatic presJ sure. j Professor Oman publishes Prince Lichnowsky's private letter? to Visj count Grey. These prove that | Prince Lichnowsky's Government | shamelessly betrayed him. There is the deeply interesting analysis of the circumstances of the Russian mobilisation by General Sukhomlinoff. and General Januehkcirtcb, Chief of Staff, Despite the Czar's countermanding order the generals were aware of the definite threat of war by Austria and Germany, therefore they were justified in mobilising. The Czar afterwards admitted that the gen- ! erals were justified in disregarding orders. Genera] Sukhomlinofi: escaped to Finland after his trial, and the Bolsheviks recently murdered Janusehkoirteh. The writer deals with the fake edition of the "Lokal Anzciger'' which announced the mobilisation, and this fact being telegraplied to Petrograd precipitated the war. Professor Oman acquits Bethmaim Hollweg, and places the blame ort the General Staff. The Russian Ambasador's telegram to Petrograd denying the truth of the ''Lokal AnzcigerV statements was defiberatelv delayed. §

A chapter devoted to personal telegrams exchanged between the King, the Kaiser. Prince Henry and the Czar establishes the fact that the Kaiser played a treacherous game His memory was most elastic "and convenient..