PROVING GERMANY’S INNOCENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 3

PROVING GERMANY’S INNOCENCE.

————o-»-- 1 «Herr Von Jagow, the unctuous but} truculent bully who was in charge of the German Foreign Offieo during the early years of the war, has published a book in which'he makes‘ one ‘more attempt‘ to whitewash Gerniaiy. He says he was away on his honeymoon when on July 5, 1915, Garaf Hoyos brought a special letter from the Emperoir Francis Joseph_ But he arrived in Berlin next day. ‘Some days later. on seeing the, Austrian ultimatum to ox-roiu, he :«:s- ) serts he censured it as “pretty sharp,”l but he confesses to have done nothing .i at the last critical moment to support! Sir Edward Grey’s proposal for arbitration over the two points which

Serbia declined to accept. “Such a court would not have been auspicious for‘ onr Ally,” is his excuse. He confesses, too. that the French attacks bln Nuremberg and other places alleged in the German declaration of’ war were imaginations based on “false premises.” T-Ie admits even that the invasion of Belgium was “an error at least from a formal standpoint_” “Formally” Wrong is all he will confess. » It is characteristic of Berlin’s atti--tude at present that fhe “Lokal ‘Anzieger” and other‘ iiayers iubilantly hail this book as proving Germany’s innocence. ‘ l ....,-