The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-12-04
YELLOW BOOK HAS PIG PAGES
AND COMPRISES 100 DOCU-
MENTS REVIEWING EARLY
DAYS OF STRUGGLE.
GERMANY'S ACTIVITY
BEGAN IN YEAR 1918
France Responded to Menace by Draft
ing Law of Three Years Service in
Army-Austria and Germany
Declared Principal Causes
of the Present War.

| Paris, Dec 2.-The French ministry
of foreign affairs has made public a
| Yellow Book, bearing on the causes OF
the present war. The French volume
is much more complete than the publ
cations of this nature given out up to
the present time by other govern
ments.
Comprises 100 Documents.
The French report has ZIG pages
and comprises no fewer than 160 docu-
ments 1t is devoted primarily to a
recital of the negotiations which fol-
lowed the delivery of the Austrian note
to Servia, July %, 1910, and which
preceded the declaration of war by
Germany on Russia, Aug. 1, 1910 /,
and on France, (Aug. 8, 1910.
Not to Conclude Peace Separately.
1t is brought to a close by the repro
duction of the declaration of the Triple
Entente powers, that Great Britain,
Russia and France would not conclude
peace separately.
The French diplomatic documents in
this book are divided in chapters in
order to distinguish the preliminaries
from the principal phases of the Euro
pean crisis. The first chapter is en-
titled Preface" (1913) and is devoted
to the causes of the present conflict.
An extract of the yellow book given
out officially in Paris, reads as follows:
'It was first in the spring of 1913
that we noted this colossal and expen-
sive military effort which alone can ex-
plain the desire to impose the German
ic superiority and hegemony upon the
powers of the triple entente When
France responded to this menace by
the drafting of the law of three years
service in the army this measure of
defense was denounced in official cir
cles in Berlin as a 'provocation which
should not be tolerated.
Offensive War Against France.
I'm April of 1913 a secret and off.
cial German report defined the objec-
tive and the means of national policy
as follows:
Convince the people of the neces-
| sity of an offensive war against
France; prepare uprisings in Russia
and in North Africa; provide for, in
case of hostilities, the immediate aD.
sorption of Belgium and Holland
"These are the ideas extolled in this
report. Such is the program that
shortly after we saw the Germans en-
deavor to put in operation. We declare
that Emperor William, who up to that
time had posed as a champion of
| peace, admitted in the course of a con-
versation with the king of Belgium
that he had finally come to share the
ideas of his military advisers. He had
placed himself among the partisans
of war which he thought would not
be long delayed and the overpowering
success of which seemed to him Ger.
| tain.
Regarded as Danger to Germany.
Public opinion in it's turn, permit
ted itself to be won over by the pas
sions of the military party, and came
| to consider the affair of Agadir as a de-
| feat for Germany. 1t regarded the ex-
| istence of strong France as a danger
| to Germany and the breaking out of a
| European war was the only remedy for
| all difficulties and all uncertainties.
| These bellicose dispositions consti-
| tuted a permanent danger for the
| peace of Europe