GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

BfitSMANN-HOLLWEG'S RESPONSIBILITY. We War his, not the kaiser's. MORE SQUje&UNQ. I By. I»|»gr*pb.—Press Ann,—Copyright. .. . t New York, July 29. .Interviewed in Berlin, Herr BethmannfloDweg said that «unaer the German tonstitutijpi the Chancellor, not the Kai•w. was responsible for the nation's acts Ma policial. Herr yon Bethmann Hollyeg saM that he had accepted the re- ; Iponsibility when he was Chancellor, and ■«4 not. tried to avoid it Jf Holland surrendered the Kaiser to the Allies it would violate the treaty stipulations between Germany and Holland. The League of Nations was created ostensibly to enforce a higher regard for international treaties. Would , the League Wgin by nullifying its aims and demanding that Holland disregard her treaty obligations with Germany? The German signatories to the Versailles Treaty were merely the means, by Which thp German Government was - submitted to the most brutal compulsion of might in history. There had Pot been a parallel where crnelty had been continued with such cold calculation as. {after this war.—Aus. N.Z. table Assoc.