The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-21


ing OF the war Germany would 60
operate in an endcavor to End a
practical means FOR producing a lasting
peace by means Of an international
league. r. -
(. The sehiioiRGial Overseas News Agcn-
cy gave ont the following account Of
the ehHneellor's address:
aoThe chancellor made before the
reichslag main committee a most i'm
portani speech about the questions Of
an international union for peace and
convicted with II the problem as to
the origin Of the presPur war. In do
ing so the chancellor replied 10 the
speech made by Sir Edward Grey
british foreign secretary to foreign
newspaper men in which he said that
the origin Of the presen Mt war must in.
hnence peace conditions aud that Ger
many would be entitled to ask for
guarantees against future attacks IL the
present war really were forced upon
Germany OF course Lord Grey AZ once
added that Germany's Interpretation
Of the brigin of the war was incorrect
and that tue war was not forced mp
on Germany but was forced by Ger.
many.
s.The chancellor stated that Sir Ed.
ward Groy by giving these explana-
tions now holds the same, opinion rs
0ermpny always had dope IN regard 10
the Importance Of the origin Of the
war, For both these reasons the chan.
cellor declares Il was necessary once
more to discuss the question of the
origin of the war. $50 H.
fsThe action which made the war
unavoidable, he said, :" was the Rus.
sian mobilization, ordered On the night
Of July 303l (l9l4.) Russia, Eng
land, France, the whole world knew
that this step made il impossible. for
rs to wait any longer and that this
step was anonymous with declara-
tion Of war The whole world--even
England, too--now begins 10 compre-
Russian mobilization. Truth makes
Roadway An English scholar Of world
fame recently said: Many. people
would think differently about the end
Of the war II they were better inform
cd about its origin, especially. about
the facts of Russian mobilization"
f'Iti is no wonder, therefore, il Grey
could not leave the Russian mobiliza-
ton unmcntioned. a,
The chancellor said Lord Grey admit
ted that the RusSiart mobilization pre-.
eeded the German and Austrian mObi
lizations. But nince e desired "a
clear the Entente OF guilt, Sir Edward
Grey could not help referring to the
Russian mobilization as, Germany's
work. Grey said that Russid mobilized
lis army only after it. received a report
that Germany had ordered m0biliza-
iion! Sir Edward Grey added that
Germany had played a trick In order
10 provoke the other country into a
defensive measure to which. Germany
could reply with an sultimatum.
~ was two years and three months
before this version Of the cause of the
was occurred 70 Grey. said the chancel.
lor. and he characterized it as a yer.
sion which was az incorrect as it was
rnw. The event at which Grey limited
wNr known. The document, on which
naf based his argument, the chan
eellOT snid. Was n special edition IT the
Berlin newspaper Loksl Anaeiger.
The chancellor recalled the fact that
, on Thursday. July 30. 1914, the Lokal
Apzeiger early In the afternoon is
sned q special edition with the un true
Icpnrt Tint the German Emperor had
ordered mobilization. The chancellor
added that every one IN the reichstag
committee knew that the sale of this
sperinl ecition was prohibited immedi-
ntely BY the police and that the secre-
taTy Of fbfcigu Affairs Immediately in
forEied the Rnssiah Ambassador by tele
phone that this news was untrue.
Mobilization
The chancellor then recalled that the
Russian ETpCpr's reference to Austro-
Hungarian mnbil cation could be no
excuse Tor q general Russian mobili-
zaaian zine" Ap'ira HUNGRY then had
nah lied only eight army corps against
Rsspia 10 ghieh Russ,n {. .niy 20
alfkady Ind rcnlied b, MO- iization
thirteen army corps Only ar.rr the
grnfrsii Russian mobilization diA AS
U0-Hre~ ny. on the morning of Ju.r
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