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BOOK PROMISES
To SKATER MANY .
PRf-WAR STORIES
Assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand Was Not
Pre- Arranged.
CLAIM LICHNOWSKY
WAS KAISER'S TOOL
Many Incidents In Life of Gar
Nicholas Are Ex-
posed.

London, Feb. 13-Some of the ac-
cepted stories of the happenings of
the momentous days just prior to the
war, it is understood, are shattered in
a book based on official documents and
personal notes of diplomats and Off
Gals, to be issued tomorrow.
! The book characterizes as fallacy
i the belief that the assassination of
! Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sara
jevo, was "stage managed affair.""
but it is asserted from knowledge
/ gained from official documents that
! if the asphyxiation had not occurred
the war certainly would have been
started very soon.
The famous Potsdam conference of
July 9Th, 1914, according to the book,
was not what has been generally ac-
cepted. The meeting took place but
it was not a formal conference as has
been declared repeatedly. 1t is assert
ed that many persons who were sup
posed to have been there were not
present. Emperor William and Mem
bers of the German imperial staff
were present, however, and at this
conference Germany definitely de-
| cided for war.
Well Known Authors.
The book was written by Prof.
Chalres w. C. Oman, president of the
Royal historical the British foreign
secretary, and Earl Curzon, govern
ment leader nthe House of Lords, are
understood to have taken an active
interest in it's compilation.
Zone of the banning revelations"
as Prof. Oman calls them, is his
statement that from close study Of
Munich newspapers he has establish
ed that the ultimatum from the Wen
ma government to the Serbian govern
ment was deliberately timed when
President Poincare and premier vi
viani, of France were at sea after
their departure from Petrograd, in
order to make it difficult for the
entente to reach an understanding,
Prof. Oman, gives what he calls a
complete analysis fthese reveala-
tons.
A series of hitherto unpublished
communications" between Sir Edward
1914, and Prince Lichnowsky, German
break Of the war, goes to prove, Prof
office believed Lichnowsky was abso-
, lutely honest. The book says:
Il Lichnowsky Betrayed.
"They empahize the personal anx-
iety of Lichnowsky and show that he
, was actually betrayed by his govern
ment-in other words that he was the
, unwilling tool of the Kaiser"
{ On July goth, 1914. Prince Lichnow-
3 sky wrote privately as follows to Sir
e Edward Grey:
, II begin to hope that it once
) more has been possible owing to An
: glo- German collaboration to save the
peace of Europe"
"The chancellor told me last night
that he was pressing the button with
a view to forming a moderating in
fluence on VIENNA"
Information contained in the bool
show that the opposite was taking
place, and that chancellor Won Beth
. MANN HOlleweg was doing everything
possible to get the German war ma
L chine going.
journalistic Mystery.
The book refers to q Journalistic
1T mystery-the publication by the West
minister Gazette, on August LIST, 1914
l. the text of purported telegram ad
" dressed on July Both by Won Beth
T. MANI Hollweg to- the German ambas
rs sador in Vienna, saying:
20 eve must refuse to be drawn int
is world conflagration through Austris
r. Hungary not respecting our advice.
o. Prof. Oman says that the newspape
enver revealed the source of the DIES
d patch and it was never included j
the German White Book or in an
he publication, yet the document wa
); dragged out two and one-haf year
= later by chancellor Michaelis and cite
- - as proof that Germany was holdin
~ back until Russia modified, whic
% mobilization Germany gives as tt
Gil cause of the war.
w. Gives Russia Details.
or The book goes into detail of Il
'or fateful night during which the ord,
~ of emperor Nicholas conference.-the
les the Russian mobilization was ignore
rs. by the Russian war minister and Il
chief of staff. The evidence establisl
IT. es that the Russian mobilization W,
les caused by war threats made by cou
we Pourtales, the German ambassad
an in Petrcgrad, that the Russian mini
lid ter knew all about it and went aAel
lev with their plans s9nA that whom 4
he was came ennpofGr Nich6las really
re- that they were right ana ~ v
md wrong.
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fContinuod IN poea III "