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VfHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND, - FRIDAY, DECEMBER -5. 1919. M 0) AS AGGRESSOR IN VAR BY VILHELM KaiserY Pre-War OfHcial Notes . Reveal That He Believed the British : Deceived Germany. x vwyymim w a w , ar,r wawaH -r . Rotterdam, H o Hand, Dec. 5. Universal Service herewith presents two notes sent oy the kaiser to Chan " cellor Bethmann Hollweg, on the vent; of England's Intervention in the great war. They are dated July 2 9 and 30, 1914, and are in the ; ex-emperor's handwriting. F.Thto notes are among tha 900 docu ments of the German foreign office com , piled by Socialist Deputy Kautskv. Pro fssaer Walther Schuecklag and Weu tenant General Count von Motg&les, at the iehest of the republican government "They "were briefly touched upon in the arummary or the revelations exuunTw published by Universal Service last Sat- tinto an'RililAl. Tha fail taXt "lVn herewith opens Bp a new phase of the qnestion or war gmn. inese noie ir the kaiser to his Imperial chancellor have a bearing upon pre-war . history rather than on the secret diplomatic machination directly leading to the out ' break of the war, as revealed'Jn the first and second chapter of this sensational expose. , . . ipidJiA?Tn 18 BLAMED They represent,' in the kaiser's own words, the basis of Germany's case as she sees it, culminating in the argument that England's alleged policy on encir clement, or isolation, of Germany and Austria made th world war Inevitable. Wilhelm II. in those two documents, is revealed in one of his most impetuous and indignant woods. With words of bitter invective ind personal denuncia tion of the then British foreign minis ter. Sir (now Viscount) Edward Grey, - whom he calls a "low hound" and with an afterthought that leads him to ex press frank admiration for the "grandi ose performance" Of British diplomacy, the kaieer; accused England of having deliberately Jand cunningly lulled Ger .ttany into a feeling Of security while quietly drawing the fatal net around her and finally tying a "noose" out of Germany's loyalty to her ally, Austria. KAISER-IS SARCASTIC The kaiser's memorandum of July 20 sheds further light on the famous mes sage said to have been 'sent by King Oeorge V through the latter' brother, Prince Henry. Most . Interesting, perhaps, of all the claims set forth in the kaiser's notes is that England with "one single sharp and earnest word of warning" could ' have confined the war to its original scope. - On July 29 Prince Llchnowsky, then 'German ambassador in London, reported to Berlin that Sid Edward Grey had said the situation was becoming in--. ereaslngly serious. When the kaiser re ceived that report he attached to it this . memorandum : . ,' The Mggest, most unheard of pleee of English Pharisaism I have ever seen. Aha, the base deceiver ! Arch-base and Uephlstofeltan ! But, truly, engnsn,! OEBMANT DECEIVED, CLAIM ' 1 'Begarding Prince Llchnowsky's re mark that Grey had said England might .be unable to stand aside, the kaiser wrote von Bethmann Hollweg: -"This pack of base hucksters sought 'to deceive us with dinners and speeches. The king's (George V) message for me ' through Henry (Prince Henry, the , kaiser's brother) in. which be said "We win remain neutral and try to keep out Of this as long as possible,' was the grossest deception of all. ' . Grey gives the king the He, and this statement to Hchnowsky la the voice of ' a guilty conscienceof the feeling, in fact, that he has deceived ua -Jt amounts, moreover, to a threat which is partly bluff designed to separ- -:'ata us from Austria, prevent us from mobilising, and foist upon us the re sponsibility for the war.. CALLS KIJTG "HOU5D" -He knows perfectly well that he has only to utter onw single sharp and earnest word of warning in. Paris and P.buS "to enjoin neutrality upon them (France ahd Russia)' and they will "But h takes rood care not to utter this word nd. he, threatens us. instead ! The low hound 1 . 4 . . The responsibility . for . peace or war i now run upon coguuia - avion ana no I longer upon.ua -.., ; I QThe kaUers memorandum to (Chancel lor, von Bethmann Hollweg, sent on July SO, follows. In full: v- . "It Is now clear to me beyond all dotfbt that England, Russia and Franc on the ostensible ground that they were con fronted with our casus foederis towards Austria have seized on the Austro-Serbia conflict as a pretext and. have delib erately concerted among themselves to embark-upon a war of' destruction against us. Hence Grey's cynical re mark, to Llchnowsky to the effect that England will sit still as long as th war remains confined to Russia and Austria, and that only when France intervened would he be compelled to move actively against us that is to say either, we must basely betray our ally to the mercy of Russia, thereby breaking up the triple alliance, or else, for our loyalty to our ally we roust submit tobelng set upon and chastised by -the whole triple entente, whose envy would at last have the gratification of totally raining us by their combined efforts. JTOOSE IS -MADE "This, In a nntshe11,Ms the true, naked situation low!y but surely initiated by Edward VII., promoted by him despite all denials and systematically developed by means of conversations on the part of England with Paris and Petersburg which is now s being completed and set in motion by George V. "To this end a noose is being made for our necks out of the stupidity and clumsiness of our ally. ."And so, notwithstanding all the efr forts of our politicians and diplomats to prevent It, the celebrated encirclement has at last become an accomplished fact. 'The net has suddenly been drawn over our heads, snd England sneerlngly has scored the most brilliant success in her tenacious, purely anti-German world policy, against which we have found ourselves powerless, for as soon as we were' struggling alone in the net,, the halter for our political and eoonomio destruction was tied out of our loyalty to our Austrian ally. GERMANY ENTEB8 TBAP : - ' "A grandiose performance. which de serves admiration even at the hands of him who is doomed to perish by it "Edward VII Is dead, but he is still stronger in bis grave today than I who am alive. "And yet there are people who thought England might be won or placated by this or that petty expedient! "Unceasingly, unyieldingly she has pursued her Sim by means of notes, pro-, posals for a naval holiday, war stares, Haldanes, eta, until the . desired point has been reached. And we fell Into the traPrW1, even introduced a on-hip-a-year rate in our naval construction pro gram ln-ths touching hope that we might thereby reassure England. , - -"All my warnings and entreaties fell upon deaf ears. Now comes England's to called thanks for all this.. ,, - r EVDIA'S LOSS PBKDICTKD , f "Out of the dilemma of our alliance loyalty towards the venerable ld em peror (Francis Joseph) is being created for us a situation Which gives England the . desired, pretext, for-destroying us with a hypocritical' semblance of Justice presented,, by helping France - to main tain the notorious balance of power la Europe ; in other words, all states of Europe are to be played off against us for the benefit of England t A "All these machinations must now . be unsparingly laid bare! the mask of Christian peacefulness must be openly and violently torn from them in public and this pharasltlcal pretense of peace must be pilloried I ,- : "Our consuls la Turkey and India, out agents, etc., must inflame the whole Moslem world Into-, savage uprising against this lying and unscrupulous na tion of hucksters. . - - r "For If we are to bleed to death. Eng land shall, at the very least, lose India.' StarlipSjCriticized For Bernard Against - Wilson in Address By William H. Bradea Special. Ttfcla to Th Journal sad The Chicago (OoprrifM; I9ts,r Cbicaio DaOr.N Co.) ... Dublin, Dec $. - Dublin is discussing with soma astonishment ah attack on President Wilson by the Right Hon. Dr. Starkie, official head of the Irish prl mary education system.; He was pre siding at a lecture in Trinity college on the Irish sense of ' humor and he said be thought the Americana showed a sense of humof when they compelled President. Wilson to go to bed with diplomatic illness. -In America, he said, they did not take his 14 points seriously, but tho him a blatant humbug as the speaker himself did. The president, he said, came to Europ and destroyed peace .by in troducing his ridiculous League of Na tions. "We all bowed down to him," added Dr. Starkie, "and nobody could say anything without talking of the grand republic of the West, which I person ally wish had never been discovered." This kind of talk from a man holding a high educational appointment and honored with a seat in the privy coun cil Is felt to exceed the limits of decency. ughtlE' J! in n LOWERED PARIS Old Glory No Longer Floats Over Prison and Headquarters, as Last of Soldiers Leave. By Henry J. Smith Special Cable to The Journal end The CMotgo Daily Neva (Copyright, 1919, by Chicago DUy Kewt Co.) Paris, Prance, Dec 5. The Amer ican flag floats no longer from the famous old buildings in the Avenue Montaigne, and the Rue Saint Anne, in the first of which General Persh ing and his staff had their head- quarters for many; months, and in the other of which hundreds Of naughty soldiers found cells and got a start toward Leavenworth. The last of the American army is packing, its uniforms Which are now al- most unknown in the Paris streets. Of the military police, formerly? numbering thousands, there now remains one com pany. . Between now and December 15 400 of ficers and 19Q0 men will sail in one large contingent on the America, which also carries the peace delegation on December S. This will leave for the final roundup 130 officers and 250 men, not counting the Brest contingent, which departs December 15. By January 1 Brest will no longer be a port of em barkation for the homeward bound men Antwerp will serve as the port of re plenishment for the army of occupa tion and all other American purposes.' Now the musty old Hotel Saint Anne no longer houses prisoners or military courts. The latter will continue a little longer at Brest and later in America. ;ven on shipboard some cases will be tried by means of depositions. A few malefactors will be left to the mercies of the French authorities. ,It is under stood that William D. Connor will be one of the few general officers keeping his rank despite the recent ruling of congress that both the general and his chief of staff will be demoted to majors. 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