Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-14
KANSAS CITY STAR RELATES STORIES OF
 HUN ACTIVITIES RESUL TING IN CONFLICT
 AS TOLD BY HIS FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES,


 foreign minister) and of Boliati Qtal- ian ambassador in Berin), my urgent advice-it was all of no use, for Berlin went on insisting that Serbia must be 7assacreed.
 "The more I pressed, the less will ing they were to alter their course, 1T only because was not to have the success of saving peace in the com pany of Sir Edward Grey.
 "So Grey on July 29, resolved upon his well known warning. l replied that I had always reported that we should have to reckon upon English hostility if it came to war with France. The minister said to me repeatedly: If war breaks out it will be the great lest catastrophe the world has ever seen
 | Grey Still Sought Peace
 After that events moved rapidly. When Count Berchtold, who hitherto had played the strong man on instruc- tions from Berlin, at last decided to change his course, we answered the Russian mobilization-after Russia had for a whole week negotiated and waited in vain-with our ultimatum land declaration of war.
 sir Edward Grey still looked for new ways of escape. In the morning ! of August 1 Sir W. Tyrrell came to me to say that his chief still hoped to I find a way out. Should We remain neutral if France did the same? understood him to mean that we lshould then be ready to spare France, but his meaning was that we should II Iremain absolutely neutral-neutral. therefore, even toward Russia. That was the we'll known misunderstanding. Sir Edward had given me an appoint lment for the afternoon, but, as ne Twas then at a meeting of the cabinet, he called me upon the telephone after Sir w. Tyrrell had hurried straight to him. But in the afternoon he spoke no longer of anything but Belgian neu- trality and of the possibility that we and France should face one another armed. without attacking one another.
 Thus there was no proposal what lever, but question without any obli- eation, because our conversation, as have already explained. was to take place soon afterward. In Berlin, how over-without waiting for the con. lyersation-this news was used as the Foundation for a far reaching act. Then lcame Poincare's letter, BOnar Laws letter and the telegram from the king of the Belgians. The hesitating mem. bers of the cabinet were converted. with the exception of three members, who resigned.
 "A special train took US to Harwich. where a guard of honor was drawn up for me. l was treated like a departing sovereign. Thus ended my London mission. 1t was wrecked not by the perfidity of the British, but by the perfidity of our policy" Il The full significance of such state ments may be better appreciated when it is realized that the German govern lment thought enough of LichnOwsky's ability to give him the important post of ambassador to England. Previous lly he had been the ambassador to Aus ltria, a trained diplomat, a nobleman, as they believed. a typical German of the ruling class.
 His summary places the guilt di rectly:
 Question of Guilt
 "As appears from all official publi cations, without the facts being con troverted by our own White Book, which. owing to its poverty and gaps, constitutes a grave self-accusation:
 "1. We encouraged Count Berch- Itold to attack Serbia, although no Ger man interest was involved. and the danger of world war must have been known to us-whether we knew the text of the ultimatum is a question Of complete indifference
 "2. In the days between July 23 and July 90, 1914, when M. Sazanoff i emphatically declared that Russia could not tolerate an attack upon Ser bia. we rejected the British proposals of mediation although Serbia, under | Russian and British pressure, had ac- cepted almost the whole ultimatum, and although an agreement about the two points in question could easily have been reached. and Count Berch- told was even ready to satisfy himself with the Serbian reply.
 @. On July 30, when Count Berch- told wanted to give way we, without Austria having been attacked, replied to Russias mere mobilization by send ing an ultimatum to Petersburg, and on July 31 we declared war on the Russians. although the cZar had pledg- ed his word that as long as negotia- tions continued not man should march-so that we delibertely destroy ed the possibility of a peaceful settle ment.
 'In view of these indisputable facts it is not surprising that the whole civ ilized world outside Germany attrib- utes to us the sole guilt for the world war.
 "Is it not intelligible that our enc mics declare that they will not rest until a system is destroyed which con stitutes a permanent threatening Of our neighbors?'
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