The Washington herald., 1917-01-17
berlin ANSWERS
ALLIES CHARGES
SCIENTIFICALLY
Replies to Accusations MAIDS
in Entente Note to
President.
PRESENTS FL QUESTIONS
Overseas News Agency Issues
Statement Authorized by
High Officials.
BURDEN PLACED ON THE ALLIES
Germany Would Evade Responsibility
for War-Makes Counter Charges
Against Entente.
PRESENTS 2l QUESTIONS
BURDEN PLACED ON THE ALLIES

OBy the Inter.stsessi News Service,
Berlin, Jan. I6.-1wenty-one per
tinent questions regarding the cir
eumstances leading up to the wa
and about the main issues that hay,
come up since its outbreak are asket
in a statement given out today b,
the Overseas News Agency, a semi
official bureau for dissemination o
news to neutral countries.
The statement is believed TO hsy,
been inspired by the German gov
ernment in answer to the charge,
made in the entente reply to Pnesi
dent Wilson.
The Overseas News Agency CAV,
out the following statement, which 4
says eminates from "a competen
and well informed authority"
The statement In full fenswsa
The queries and represekes
raised by the Reuter- Once by or
DER of the British government a.
order to lay st sermsHy's aeer
the guilt for the outbreak of the
war are not ignored by snybedy.
They are the sane phx.,ss
which were refutes by ms se.s
age We make seas ees.tss
querIesI
"Dad net Sir Esvsrs Grey de-
clare that EsGissA would reseu.es
the fses of q essferenee tfer ss
anicssse setgs.est of -sse Sersxsu
snesssos whtcs ie< % the ~ssD if
Germany sseeeesed In .ahias
Aostris-HuHEsry seGefkste direct
ly with Russia, and s3a not Ger
nsny's stesefsst eaerts sseeeedr
~Was not the eGer of an srbItr,-
tion court made on the .sss asy
that Russia nebiIised ss.f.st Ass-
tris-Hunxary, the ally of Ger
many, TO whose sssistssoe Ger
many was compelled by treaty 90
got
-Wss not this sner a. unf.tr
demand which could be answered
by Germany only In the fsskscs In
which "a wan answere<t
Did not the Br1tish .nss.xs-
Cor I'm Petregrsd M early q July
Ss warn the premier of Rss~ia- NJ.
sasonos, against erderfns ssstIi-
nation since Germany could net -
ksttshed with q counter aetuixs-
tien but must i.nedtstesy a~e1srs
wnrf
"Dis .et Cesst Pesrtsyes eestfs-
uousiy tell the same tkiaS TO Min
lister SsssscGt
COULD sBE HAZE KEPT PEACEt
-W.s IL not d. Ensisns,s hs.as
To stny out of the war, bot atS sk.
prefer TO use the oppertusfty 90
assault Germany after Sir Edwrre
Grey had refused to remaI. nep-
tral, IL even in the case that BEL
Eisn neutrality and the Integrity
Of France and the Fresck colonies
were guaranteed by Gernssyt
-is IL not visible from THE fact.
and from the strict refusal 10 give
any conditions whstsver under
which Great britain would remain
neutral that it was EnGisss's al
solute will 10 attack
"Dtd not Rsxsia- after Carrying
oot her mesIII.stien. express her
Erstitsds 10 England for the ser.
attitude which was observed by
EREinsd TOWARD Germany
why IL Reuters silent shest
Ireland. where British eReers oct
of sheer lust Of kiiII.s shet tsso-
cent Irtshmen without court mar
tIaIt
"Do not the British remember
the concentration camps durfn8
the Boer war. when tho9ssnds of
Innocent Boer children pertsheA-
and does not the British rsvsr--
ment know what q great numser
of Boers are even now thinkiHs
of Eaglandf
DUAA DISCUSSIONS.
els the British Eoverpsest ~
noraat of the Dums dkscS>.ze.s
about the trestnest Of foreign .s-
tions I'm Russist
"only recently the Russian 6>p-
uty, Tschenkety, said In the Dunn
that FROM the tribune of the Du.s
" had been openly said that tie
Russian EcyeruHent durfnE the
war offended all human ssd sfv1,s
laws regarding . great sunber sf
nstions.
Shave not. sccordtns TO the tr-
refutsbIe testins.f.I OF p-s
members. nsnher3ess t.ssce.s y>~-s
In Russia been hsnEed. while Ne
hsmmedsns In the CsSeasas hsvs
been tortured TO destkt
Shave net England ssa Frs,~S.
under hypocrtttesI pretexts ef sef-
ing as preseetiaG powers. made re-
guests of severetsn Greece which
BY far exceed thsse which Aussrfs-
Hungary was compelled 20 ssk sf
Serbtaf
~As to colonies, Germany sSs.a.-
ed hers hy peaceful sessti.fts.a.
Germany Is net resp~~ssspe f>r IN
aecesst Of gatls sscA ss ExxS,6 ,s
guilty of II India aaa Rru.ce fs
Mereeeo.
~Css EsGlasd fur.ish say vrssf
for the sfnrmsfssa that G~sRaux,
before the British is1a ns.>s In
the German Sea, placed nises any,
wkcre exeept OF the German suS
E.xitsh e~ssts ssd spSrsaeses
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