Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-10
GERMANYS PLEA
FOR FAIRNESS
Speech Of Chancellor Before
the Main Committee of
the Reichstag.
WHO MADE WAR UNAVOIDABLE
a Rational Defense of Ger
many's Position and Her
Efforts for Peace.

BERLIN, Nov. 9.-OBy wireless TO
Soyville.1 The chancellor made to-
day, before the main committee of
inc re!chst0E most important speech
~ the question of an international
l~Hue for peace. with which he con-
htcttd the problem Of the origin of
the wal.
The ohancellors address was re-
ply 20 the speech made by Lord Grey
TO foreign newspapermen in which the
latter said that the origin of the pres
ent war must influence the peace con-
ditions and that Germany would be
entitled To ask for guarantees against
future attacks II the present war had
really been forced upon Germany
To this, the chancellor said, Lord Grey
mad, of course hastened to add that
/ermanS's Interpretation of the origin
/of tine >Yar was wrong and that war
had nor been forced upon Germany
but that it was Germany who had
forced u upon Europe. DR.. Won Beth
ann-Holiweg pointed out that Lord
Grey in making this statement was
showing that he now had come TO the
same opinion that Germany had al
ways held as to the importance of the
causes OF. the war. For these reasons,
the chancellor declared, ii was neces-
sary once more TO discuss the question
of the origin of the war.
THE action" said the chancellor,
which made the war unavoidable was
the Russian mobilization ordered dur
ing the night from July 80 to 81.
Russia, England, France, the whole
world knew that this step made 1t
Impossible Tor us to wait any longer
and that 1t was Synonymous with
declaration of war. Th%whole world,
even England, is now beginning to
comprehend the fateful Importance of
the Russian mobilization.
The truth is making headway. An
English scholar Of world fame re-
Gently said: MANY people would
think Different yabout the end of the
war If they were better informed
about its origin, Especially about the
facts of the Russian mobilization 1t
is no wonder, therefore, that Lord
Grey had to make mention of the
Russian mobilization
The chancellor continued saying
that Lord Grey had admitted that the
Russian mobilization preceded that OF
both Germany and Austria hungary.
But wishing to clear the entente of
guilt Lord Grey had seen himself
compelled to represent this Russian
mobilization as Gormany's work Lord
Grey had said that Russia had mo-
bilized her army only after she had
received "A report saying, that Ger
many had ordered globlization. This
was according 10 !. Lord Grey, a trick
which Germany md played in order
to provoke Russia into taking de-
fensive measures to which Germany
would then be ip a position to answer
by an ultmatuM
To this the chancellor replied:
1T took two years and three months
until this version of the cause of the
war occurred to Lord Grey, version
which is as new as it is incorrect The
incident to which he alludes is well
known. The document on which he
bases his argument is special edition
of the Berlin Lokalanleiger."
The chancellor then recalled the
fact that on Thursday, July 80, I914,
early in the afternoon the Lokalan-