Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-03-02

Paris March 1.-TWO historic doc
unents. one showing the German gov
crnment's determination to force war
upon France and the other setting
Forth the reasons which induced Ger
many to take Alsare lorraine, were
n,ade public today by stephen Plchon,
the French foreign minister. The
minister was speaking at the Sorbonne
upon the anniversary Of the protest
made by representatives of the ma
tional assembly of Alsace-Lorraine
against annexation to Germany.
81 will establish by documents"
said NJ Pichon, that the Gay the
Germans deliberately rendered newt
able the most frightful of s. ars they
tried to dishonor us by the most cow
ardly completely In the ambush into
which they drew Europe. I will es-
tablish 1t in the revelation of doc
unent that the German chancellor
after having drawn up, preserved
carefully. and YOU will see why. E tha.
IT ost profound mystery Of the most
secrnt archives.
Asked to Remain Nent'Ll.
I'VE have known only recently Of
its authenticity and it defieG any sort
OF attempt to disprove IT, II bears
the signature of Bethmann .tlolweg
German imperial chanceilcr M the
outbreak Of the wary and the date
July 81. 1914 On that day Won
Schoen German ambassador to
Frarce) was charged hy 6. telegram
from his chancellor to notify us of
state of danger of war with Russia
and to ask us to remain neutral Civ
lag us eighteen hours in which to re.
ply.
what was unknown until today
was that the telegram ot the German
chancellor containing these instruc-
tons terminated with these words.
I' the French government. declares it
will remain neutral YOU. excellency
will he good enough to declare that
we must. as i,'ttrantne Of its nue.
tally. require the handing over Il
tho fortresses Of Toul and Ncrj,ii.l.
that we will occrry them and Will re-
store them aft9, tho end II The war
witt Russia rebly to This last
question must reach here before Sat
urday afternoon at o'clock
Insinccrity Unmasked.
That" said M. Pichon, ''is how
Germany wanted peace at the moment
when she declared war. That is how
sincere she was in pretending that we
Obliged her to take up arms for ner
defense. That Is the price she in
tended to make us pay for our tase-
ness II we had had the infamy tc re-
pudiate our signature as Prussia re-
pudiated hers by tearing up the treaty
that guaranteed the neutrality OF Bel
GUM.
"Our mortal enemy in the war of
1871. Won Moltke. declared on tho
morrow of the treaty of Frankfort"
added M. Pichon on taking up the
question of Alsace-Lorraine, "thut it
would require no less than fifty years
to wean the heart of her lost prov
inces from France"
M. Pichon contrasted the German
acceptance then that the provinces
were in reality FreGh, with the icit-
Grated pretensions of German States
men since, especially the assertions cf
former Chancellor .Bethmann- -Hol-veg
and the present chancellor, Count Won
Hertling, that most of the provinces
were always German.
Letter From Grandpa.
The foreign minister made public
for the first time the full text of let
ter by William I, the grandfather %
the present German emperor, to Em.-
press Eugenie. The letter is dated
Versailles, October 2, 1870.
"After the immense sacrifices for
her defense" read M. Pichon, Ger
many desires to be assured that tho
next war will find her better prepared
to repel the aggression upon which
she can count as soon as France
shall have repaired her forces and
gained allies. This is the melancholy
consideration alone and not a desire
to augment my country whose terri
tory is sufficiently great, that obliges
me to insist upon the cession of ter
fitories that has no other object thar
TO throw back to the starting point tho
French armies that, in the future, will
come to attack u.s.
German Title Defective.
After reading this passage NJ
Pichon asked:
Can one better destroy the legend