Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-03

to my mind, it seems to be altogether wrong to iCok for the real causes Of the 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.
 Since the Anglo-Freneh treaty of 1904 a complete literature had sprung up in France, in which openly and ] loudly the conquest of Alsac-Lorraine was discussed and everything said In ! it suggested to the French the idea | of Germany's inferioTity. The entente's note points out that at the last peace conference Germany treated the pro position to disarm with distrust. But ! Germany knew then pertinently that the proposition was mainly directed against her existence.
 Crafty France"
 Russia after the economical reor- ganization that followed the war with Japan 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 a three year service, thus sap ping her capital of vital national forces. Six months before the begin ming Of the war the French military specialists published open discussions regarding the loans of billions and billions of French money streaming into Russia and the condition under which France had leaned this money. France had asked in return for her loans the construction of strategicai railways in Russia.
 Allies War Scheme.
 Tn this literature it was explained with all the circumstances that not Warsaw but Grodns and Kovno would be the base for Russian deployment because from there the Prussian army corps in Koenigsburg and Allenstein could most quickly be rolled up and thus the road to Berlin could be opened.
 Tn August, 1914, the attempt was made at least to make things go this way, and today they want to persuade the nations of the world that Germany prepared herself, not for protection against an aggressive coalition but in order to annihiliate France.
 Can't Blame Germany.
 The same people who promised to Russia the conquest and possession of Constantinople, dare to assert that Germany has aggressive intentions. Of course the conquest of Constantinople, which was announced by Trepoff (the Russia premier) in the Duma is passed in silence in the entente note, just as they, in Q discussion of diplomatic events in July, 1914, elegantly slide yver the decisive event-that brusque intervention in all attempts at media ton by the Russian mobilizs tion, which vas even repeatedly dissuaded by the English ambassador at St. Peters burg"
 Do you think that under these circumstances the moral indignation in the tone of the entente note is sincere?" was asked.
 Most certainly I do," replied Direc- tor Hammann. "I am of the same opinion as Bernard Shaw and consider the sincerity of this moral indignation as a new instance of the providential harmony between the interests and moral and political ideas of England
 About Indiqnity.
 We know this moral indignation from history. When the PrUssians and Austrians marched into Schleswig- Holstein, in order to assist their coun- trymen and fight on the side of the Hoistein irredentists for the Of the German race, then Lord Pslmerston and Lord ShatsDury in the lower and upper houses mani | tested the same moral indignation. They also immediately found the same sincere words as outrage, violence. 1 most cowardlly', and 'frightful atroci- | ties.
 Sincere was Sir Edward Grey's in- i dignation when, on July 29, 1914, he | received from the German chancellor | the suggestion that Germany, if Eng !