The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-02
BE MES GERMANY
 FOR THE WAR.
Austria's Declaration of War On Servia Was Primal Cause. But German Ultimatum to Russia Destroyed Last Hope of Peace, Says Statement.

The French ministry of foncign af- fairs made public Yellow Book bearing on the causes ofS the present war. This volume is much more com plete than the publications of thas nature given out up to the present time by other governments.
 It fs devoted primarily to recital Of the negotiaMons which followed the delivery of the Austrian note to See- via (July 22. 1914) and which pre- ceded the declaration of war by Ger many on Russia August 1. 19141. and on France August 3. 19141- It is brought to a close by the reproduc- ton Of the declaration of the Triple Entente powers that Great Britain, Russia and France would not con- clude peace separately.
 Tt was first in the spring of 1913 that we noted this colossal and ex- pensive military effort which alone can explain the desire to impose the upon the powers of the Triple En- tente When France responded to this menace by the drafting of the law of three years service in the army. this measure of defense was de- nourced in official circles in Berlin tolerated.
 .sIn ADrn of 1918 a secret and off cial German report defined the 'ob- j6ctive and the means of the national B0liCY' IOllOFFS. N%OnV1nCS9 l1S peoplo Of the necessity of an offen- 5 sfve war against France prepare up risfnxs in Russia ana in North Africa: provide for in case Of host1lities. the. immediate absorption of Belsium and Holland
 we declare that Emperor William. who up to that t1nne had posed aa a champton of peace admitted in the course of a. conversation with the King of Belgium. that he had finally. come to share the ideas of his unih- tary advisers. He had placed him self among the partisans of a war which he thought would not be long delayed and the overpowering suc- cess of which seemed to him certain. Public opinion. in it's turn permitted itaelf to be won over by the passions of the military party. It regarded the danger ko Germany and the break ing out of a European war as the only remedy for all difficulties and all uucertatnties.'
 From . perusaI of the Yellow Book. there is to be deducted the following innpressinnss-
 That sthe combination between Austria. and Germany had decided upon war, and that on four successive occasions this coordination endeaxored to prec1pttate war by violent pro- ceedtngs, the purpose Of which was to DT9YGAEx OF to insure [09 1144U1GB OA all efforts at consultation. The first Of these proceedings was the Austrian JItt1nat1Aa to Servia (JuIy 241. which , was the origin of this conflict In spite of the fact that the Belgrade governnent offered. for the sprosecu- ton Of the assassina of the Austrian Archduke, every facility compatible with it's dignity, the cabinet of Vienna summoned the government at Bell grade not only to disal1ow all conn plieity with the crime of Sarayevo. but furthermore. to permit foreign functionax1ee to seek the authors of this crime on Servian territory.
 ssvfenna gave Servfa only two days to accept integralIy these. Draconian conditions Tn spite of the fact that M vou Jagow, the German minister Of forelgn affairs claimed to be in ignorance of the contents Of this note (which was. nevertheless, known to the president of the Bavarian coun- ci19. Germany immediately and with out restriction, united herself with her ally. The German ambassador came to the Quay dsOrsay (the French for eIgn office In Paris1 and endeavored to carry through a proposal which he represented as being peaceful, but which WAS in reality threatening. He declared that the conflict should re- main localized and that any 1nterven- ton on the part of third power would result in incalcu1ab1e conse- duences This was tantanount to letting 1t be understood that Austria. should have every liberty to crush Servja and that Germany would have recourse to arms to prevent Russia. from succoring Servia-
 ssConfronted with this situation the first thought of the powers forming the Triple Entente was to gain time \ to examine the conflict with greater care, and if possible to render it less
 -k1.- . that Vienna extend the period of de- lay allowed SerYfa for her answer. Then Austria became fearful that she would De left without B pretext of war and she endeavored to ward off this danger by another expedient. She de- clfned. for avoided the request for an .5 extensfon and declared insufficient the Servian answer, which was given to her in good time and which admitted andSaccepted her principal demands
 Austria, thereupon, ordered her minister at Belgrade to leave the Ser vian capital (July 26). and diplo- r1atfc relations with servia were sew cred. The powers of the Triple En- tente, however, still endeavored to bring about a settlement. In the meantime M yon Schoer, the Ger man arnbassador in Paris demanded that France exert her influence on Russia in a peaceful sense, but he re- fused to exert similar peaceful inf1u- ence at Vienna.
 England proposed to avoid a crisis by suhmitting the Austro-Serb diff clzlty to the official mediation of the four powers which were not directly interested therein. France and Russia accepted this proposal but Germany refused under the pretext that she could not thus humiliate her ally, and she proposed, in the place of this common action, the opening of di- 2 e<sesfs s6sf1x ga and St. Petersburg, saying the latter wass-x4ady to consent to this arrange ulenS- The conf1ict seemed conse- euentty at this time to be progressing