The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-10

before entering into any fur-I ther engagements abroad" This dL
 rector of the Deutsche bank was Dr. lIClferrich, since vice chancellor of Germany. He explained "The Aus trians have just been with the kaiser In weeks time Vienna will seEd aI with very short interval for an ans wer. whole series Of f,t mite satisfactions will be demanded at once; otherwise Austria-IIungaryI will declare war on Serbia"
 This is the utmatum about which the German authorities have insisted they were not consulted.
 Dr. Muhlon continues: "Dr Helffer- ich added lha. the kaiser had eX-I pressed his decided approval of this procedure on the par, of Austria Hun
 gary. He said that he regarded a | conflict with Serbia as an internal af fair between two countries, in which he would permit no other state toI interfere. If Russia mobilized, he also would mobilize, But in this case mob
 ilzation meant immediate war
 This uncanny communication" pr. Muhlon says. converted my fears of a world war. which were already very int nhan1ntn n consulted with Herr krupp von Boh-
 len himself in Berlin. And krupp con firmed the news. He said that the kaiser had told him (krupp) that he would declare war immediately if Rus sia mobilized. and that this time peo- pie would see that he did not turn about. The kaiser's repeated insis-
 tence that this time nobody would be able to accuse him of indecison had. he said. been almost comic in it's ,ef- feet"
 On the day when the Austrian ul- timatum to Serbia was delivered the kaiser was on a yachting trip in the North sea That fact has often been advanced as proof of German inno- ccnce But when Dr. Muhlon read the ultimatum to Serbia he had another interview with Helfferich. and he tes- tfies that "Helfferich said to me that the kaiser had gone on his northern cruise oniy as blind; he had not ar ranged the cruise on the usual cXten- sive scale. but was remaining close at hand and keeping in constant touch
 Won Jagow's Admissions
 And finally Herr von Jagow, Ger manv's foreign minister at the out break of the war. in replying toI Prince Lichnowsky's evidence, makes this startling admission, among the others: "I by no means share the opinion prevalent among Us today, that England laid all the mines for the
 outbreak of the war; on the contrary, | believe in Sir Edward Greys love of peace and in his earnest wish to- arrive at an agreement with us.
 Neither was the war popular with the English people. Belgium had toI serve as a battle field" NOn JaEoW even admits that war might have been averted by an international conference on the Serbian situation. "We could
 not agree" he says, ito the English proposal of a conference of ambassa- dors, for it would doubtless have led
 to serious diplomatic defeat. For Italy. too. was proSerb, and, with her Balkan interests, stood rather opposed 10 Austria" That is to say, Won Ja-
 gow admits that war was chosen i!
 Germany as an alternative to an in tcrnational conference, which would
 have declared the Austrian demands on Serbia unjust even in the eyes ot
 Italy. the ally of Austria and Germany,
 pr. MuhIon's Conscience
 With Dr. Muhlon it was evidently l case Of conscience. When the war
 began he resigned his position as director oI Krupp's Works, at Essen
 and retired to his estate in SwltZer- land near Berne. There he lived re tired life After a time reports began
 to circulate of statements which he had made to visitors, and he was put under the surveillance of spies from
 the German embassy at Berne. Later, members from the Socialist party ln the Reichstag visited him. and the ! German press reported that retired Krupp official living in Switzerland claimed to be in possession or cer- tain secrets seriously compromising the honor of the German government in the matter of responsibility for the war" The newspapers began to hint that this official was out of his mind.