Arizona republican., 1917-08-06

treaty. During this time Russia again | spontaneously assured us that her mill | tary preparations were not directed | against us.
 ''The thirty first of July arrived. In Vienna the decision was to be made. In | the meantime we had succeeded with ! our negotiations in reaching point | where Vienna resumed intercourse with St. Petersburg, which for some time had been discontinued; but before the final decision was reached in Vii enna, the news arrived that Russia had mobiliZed it's entire fighting force, which meant also against us.
 ''The Russian government, which from repeated admonitiOns knew what mobilizing on our borders meant, did gave us absolutely no explanation. No. until the afternoon of July 31 did the , kaiser receive a message from the czar in which he assured him that the atetitude of his army was not hostile. ! However, the moblizing against us on the Russian border was on the night of July 31 already in full progress | While we, at the request of Russia were mediating in Vienna, the Russian army appeared on our long, almost en- ! tirely open border France, although
 not yet mobilizing, was making prep
 arations for var And we. up to this
 point had Intentionally not then called
 a single soldier Of the reserve for the
 sake of European peace.
 Should we continue to wait with pa t1ence until the powers by which we
 are surrounded chose the moment for
 attack? To expose Germany to this
 danger would have been criminal,
 Therefore, on July 31, we demanded
 that Russia demobilize, this being the
 only measure which could save the peace of Europe The imperial ambas-
 sador received, furthermore, the orders
 to declare to the Russian government
 that in case they did not comply with
 our demands. they should consider that
 state of war exists.
 Ihe imperial ambassador performed
 this mission. Up till the present we
 nave not learned Russia's answer to
 this demand. Photographic reports con-
 cernlng 1t have not yet reached us all
 though the wire still transmits less inn
 Portant messages. Therefore. on Aug
 HSt l, at o'clock, when the appointed
 perlod Of grace was long past. the
 kaiser considered it necessary to mo-
 bilize. -i''
 At the same time we had to mako
 sure of the position France would take To our direct question whether in co so
 oi a German Russian war she Uould
 'enlalh neutral France answered that she would do what she had to do in her
 own interests. That was an evasiva if
 not a negative answer to our question In spite of this the kaiser gave the oiuei that the French border should be
 respected. The command was strictly enforced, with a single exception. Franc. which mobilized simultaneously With uS' declared that she would respect 2 zone of ten kilometers from the hor. der And what happened in reality. f There were bomb throwing fliers cav airy patrols, invading companies in tbe l I.eichslahd tAlsace-Lorraine) Thereb, rance although the condition of wal had not yet been declared, had attacke6 g our territory.
 7 concerning the French complaint, g Tn regard to violation of the border c nave received from the chief of th, r general staff the following report: Onl 8 one offense has been committed Cor l trary to an emphatic order. patrol n 9 the Fourteenth Army Corps. led bv q,
 officer crossed the border on Auenst 3
 Ihey apparently were killed. On,v or, t man returned. However, long befor = the crossing of the border, French fiji T CTS were dropping bombs in souther, T germany and at Schluchtpass. th n french troops had attacked our horde Q troops.
 s Ohtl the present, our troops hay t cohIlhed their activity to the protec t 'loh oi our borders. They are now O, 0 the defense, and necessity recogniza r no law '''''-e r Our troops have occupied Luxem = ourg' and perhaps have also found d necessary to enter Belgian territorv n IIis IS contrary to International law n ne French government has declare,
 Tn Brussels they will respect the nen n traiity or Belgium as long as she re d spects the opponent. We knew. how l. ever that France was ready to invad e beiglum. France could wait; we how T ever could not because French inva y sloh III our lower Rhine flank woul a have proved fatal.
 e So we were forced to disregard tb protests of the Luxemburg and Belgia y governments We shall try to malk d good the injustice we have committe e "s soon as our military goal has bee IT reached. Who like we, are fighting fo
 the highest, must only consider ho, e victory can be gained"
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