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tests from other quarters | SHOULD
Internationally reject, all the NOR,
SO since everybody is more or less
openly appealing to me for help te
maintain peace"
The German chancellor thereupor
teIegraphed to Tschirschky Ger.
man ambassador at Vienna), point.
ing out that the Serbian reply was
conciliatory and that lest public
opinion in Europe be antagonfzed
Austria ought clearly to define hel
aims.
/ 1t was absolutely imperative, the
chancellor added, that the odium
tor an eventual world war should
fall upon Russia.
If Russia did not acquiesce in the
occupation (by Austria) of Belgrade
and other points as guarantee, the
chancellor continued, European
public opinion would swing definite
Fly against her"
The chancellor cautioned Tsch-
irschky carefully to avoid giving
rise to the impression that we desire
to restrain Austria"
"The point is" continued Won
BethinannHollweg, simply to find
a line of procedure which will rem
der possible the desired aim of Aus
tria-namely, to sever the vital
nerve of greater Serbia propaganda
without at the same time pro-
voking a world war, and which pro-
cedure, if such a war should ulti-
mately prove inevitable, will as far
as possible improve for us the con-
ditions under which it will have to
be waged." "A
Berchtold Dictated Declaration.
Emperor Francis Joseph signed
the declaration of war upon Berch-
told's dictation. But upon his re-
turn to the ballplatz (seat of the
Vienna foreign ofice) Berchtold
deleted from the document signed
by the emperor the references to
Serbian acts of hospitality.
The declaration of war. thus alb
breviated, arrived in Nish at l:2O
p. m. At $40 that night Berchtold
received from Ambassador Szoegy-
eny at Berlin), information to the
effect that the German government
had declined the "inopportune"
British proposals for a conference
in London.
Herr Kautsky then recounts the
now generally known exchange of
kilograms between the kaiser and
the car. and also Prince Henry's
letter with the report of promise
of King George that the latter
would try to keep British out of the
conflict.
On July % the kaiser conferred
with his leading generals and chan
cellor at Potsdam. Growing furious
over the inability to insure British
neutrality, he penned a memoran-
DUN to the chancellor attacking the
English.
The czar's suggestion, contained
in his second telegram, that the
whole matter be referred to the
Hague tribunal, was rejected by the
chancellor after it had been shown
to the kaiser. This telegram was
concealed from the German people.
On July 80, from 3 in the after
noon, Bethmann-Hollweg became
profoundly impressed with the pros
pect that in the event of war Eng
land and Italy might make common
cause with France and Russia. So
he began to make frantic efforts to
induce Berchtold to accept Grey's
offer of mediation He urged
Tschirschky to represent to the VII
emma government that if the latter
refused to exchange views with
Petrograd it would become almost
to impute to Russia the
responsibility>for the war which was
then already threatened.
Inhame Mohammedan World.
= The kaiser meanwhile penned
further memorandum to the chan
cellor charging England, France and
Russia had seized upon the Austro-
Serbian conflict "as pretext to en-
bark on war of destruction against
Us; that is to say, that we must
either shamefully betray our ally,
thereby breaking the triple alliance,
Or, for our loyalty to our ally sub
nit to being chastised by the whole
ripple entente
"This," the kaiser added, "is the
true, naked situation, initiated by
Edward VII and completed by
George V.
Edward VII. is dead, but he is
still stronger in his grave than /,
Who am live
The kaiser further declared in his |
memorandum:
"The machina tons must be laid
,are We must inhame the Moham-
nedon world into savage uprising
f we are to bleed to death, Eng
and (at1 lest) must lose India"
At 9 in the evening Chancellor
1ollweg sent a fresh telegram to
Vienna uring the Austrian govern
nent Through the German ambas-
a dor) not to DrOyoke StsoiciOn |