The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06

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Rotterdam, Holland, Dec. Am the
subjotned fourth chapter of tho Book
OF Revelations" compiled for the Ger
man republican government by So
cIaHst Deputy kautsky. assisted by
Professor SchueckinE and Count Won
Nontgelas. important additional ex-
tracts are given from some of the 800
documents Of the Berlin foreign office
brought to light by the investigators.
Applying and illuminating the
summary presented in the two first
chapters, these excerpts give further
proof of the emphatic promises of 'un
conditional support with which Ger
many legged on" Austria in her plans
for the partition OF Serbia. They tend
TO show that Wilhelmstrasse hoped and
believed that n general European con-
tiagration could he averted IL as cul-
mination to the secret anti-Serhian
diplomacy the world could be confront
cd with the accomplished fact of AUS
trisn occupation of most of Serbia
In this respect Vienna and Berlin
were pursuing tho identical policy fol-
lowed al the time OF Austria's annexa-
ton OF Bosnia and Herzegovina. when
| Germany defantly announced to the
| world that any power opposing that
hight handed Austrian coup would have
! to fight not only Austria but Germany
| as we'll.
| Throughout the long series OF the
| kautsky documents runs a thread In
| dlcating that Berlin and Vienna be-
iieved they could repeat that perform
| ance and that. having once embarked
| on this great gamble. they went ahead.
regardless of the consequences until,
| when they saw world coniag alton
was inevitable the half-hearted, vaci-
| iatiug efforts to avert II came too late
| to extinguish the fast spreading flames
HOPED ENGLAND WOULD STAY OUT
On July "a. after the Austrian ul-
tsmatum had been delivered to Ser
ba. Germany told France and Russia
| through her ambassadors IL any out
side powers should seek to intervene
Germany would be found on the side
! Of her ally The documents give
ground for the belief that Berlin
hoped this ana other threats would
keep those two powers out Cl AZ
conflict. and n" kaiser g notes a
Bethmann- Hollweg. showed h. Ii I
hoped Eng Ianl would stay out. New
ertheless the documents show that
the deliberate duplicity OF Wilhelm
strasse especially with regard 10 tn
two cmpirrr. and subsequently tn
world STRAIGHT irto the abyss of the
great war.
"Today's chapter sheds further ugh,
on the Macbtavellian attitude taken
by DR., Gotti!eb Won Jagow. thnn Ger
man foreign minister, toward Sir
tnow viscount) Edward Grey's at
tempted at mediation II shows that
Jagow transmitted the proposal TO the
| q a., a ;.t /.
out. however. instructing him to sub
rnit this proposal To the Austrian
foreign minister Count Won Berchtold
Jagow thus was in . position to tel
London without lying that he had
actually transmitted il TO Vienna
Meanwhile he had been advising
Vienna by nll means TO ignore each
and every medistory proposition.
The fresh revelations in chronoio-
sical order, follows
About The middle OF June i1t4.
when TO all appearances perfect peace
prevailed throu~hout Europe there
took place in Vienna "a conference be-
tween Count Won Bcrchtold and Arch
duke Ferdinand. heir 10 the Austrian
throne, The kaiser had had a visit
with Francis Ferdinand and had seiz-
I ed the occasion for long heart To
| heart talk with the archduke.
, The German ambassador in Vienna
| Herr Won TZchirschky reported to
Berlin on June II, that the archduke
had expressed himself highly graft
fed al his conversations with Wilhelm
], in which they had dlscu saed in de-
tail every conceivable question" and
established perfect agreement upon
all points
| eleven DAYS later the archduke
/, was assassinated at Sarajevo,)
- nnt 81
gar!an premier, according TO Tsrch-
trschkys report to the German gov
ernment was persistently refusing to
! make any territorial concessions to
Rumanid in Hungary.
On the margin OF a report 70 this
effect from Tsrchirschky the kaiser
wrote,