Mohave County miner., 1917-01-06
HAMMAN GIVES GERMAN VIEW ON.
 REJECTION IF PEACE OFFER
Declares that Entente Allies Did Not Consider Matter Around Peace Table But that They Presumed to Sit in Judgment TeutOns and Forgot Nothing that Could Influence Neutrals in Their Own Favor

is, in the Nimolsburg peace (closing the war between Prussia ana Austria) }, clause was inserted, upon the de- nand of Napoleon III, which left open for the southern German states the conclusion of a separate confedera- ton. The leading, but unavowed idea was then to found a new Rhinebund." ]"
 As to the free existence of small nations, Dr. Hamman said:
 "This idea, too, has found strange illustration during the war. Only a f';E weeks have elapsed since lead ing English minister termed the mis- fortune of the Rumanians plainly a gross blunder., By this 'blunder' a whole natoni has been pushed into nj: cry. Rumania has been dragged into great war by all sorts of dark machinations.
 "And then, look at Greece. There the entente has occupied the ports, railroads, cable and postal stations and whole districts of the country, all against the law of nations. There the entente has simply taken what it needed and by blockade and hunger has forced the Greeks to surrender those things which the entente was unable to take"
 "What about the reproach that Ger many in the decisive week of July (1914) declined the British proposal of conference and thus made war unavoidable?"
 Says Russia Baked
 To this Dr. Hamman replied:
 "The proposal for a conference was made July 26 by Germany. The mean ing of it was that the delegates of France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain should meet with Germany in conference and try to find way out of a difficult situation. The first con dition making the holding of such a conference possible should have been that the Russian cabinet declare it's consent, but it answered, July 27, in an evasive manner, and referred to Conversations with the Austro-Hun- garian ambassador in Petrograd as having begun and under the most fa- vorable auspices.
 "The following day Germany agreed to the British proposal that a direct understanding between Vienna and Petrograd would result in quicker and better action. Thus Grey, on July 2S, telegraphed to Goschen British ambassador at Berlin).
 "But as long as there is a prospect of a direct exchange of views between Austria and Russia, I should suspend every possible suggestion, as en- tirely agreed that it is the most pre- ferable method of all.
 q can only advise everyone to read the English blue book if he wants to be informed about these matters. But to my mind it seems to be altogether wrong to look for the real causes of war in the events during the last weeks of July, 1914. Then, perhaps, the last impulse for war was given, but the real cause must be found a considerable time before.
 Russians Prepared
 "Since the Anglo-French treaty of 1904 a complete literature had sprung up in France, in which openly and loudly the conquest of Alsace-Lorraine was discussed and everything said in order to suggest to the French the idea of Germany's inferiority. The entente's note points out that at the last peace conference Germany treat ed the proposition to disarm with dis trust. But Germany knew then per tinently that the proposition was mainly directed against her existence.
 Russia, after the economic regula- tion that followed the war with Ja- pan, had worked with increasing zeal for the preparedness of her army. When Germany employed the surplus of her youth for military service, France, in order to surpass us, intro duced three years service, thus sap ping her capital of vital national forces. Six months before the begin ming of the war, the French military specialists published openly discus sions regarding the reason for billions and billions of French money stream ing into Russia and the conditions un- der which France had loaned this