Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
'etHMANY's NEW WHITE
NO DEFENSE OF NATION
Secret History Of "TI,irtccn Days
as Fsteful Period VIII BE
~ Revealed.
DOCUMENTS TO BE PRINTED
Records in Berlin Foreign Office Arc
Searched by Socialist Karl kautsky
and Promise Is Giscn News Is Not
4 Suppressed.
~, E.nI H. v-1uG.ND.

BERLIN. oct is The score; history
OF the thirteen days" as tho fateful
Ssea I1 Of the War IS Known IN Wilhelm
strasse. as complied from the archives
OF the German Foreign ohies and Will
awaited records is 10 be broken at last /;
the IN &c sent is is tho sna
printing office.
Between, ninety and h. hundsd l. doe u.
pubished' 1Sts IN make ' up wolune
larger than the recent VIENNA Red
Book" or the British "Blue BOOK.
Informed. will not be white" in the
Sense that they show Germany AS
wholly free from guilt or that they
more than the color OF the Hienna BOOK
was to te taken as symbolic of Aus
tria'S guilt revealed therein.
Find secret Files.
The fac, that the secret files OF n,
Berlin Foreign Office bearing on the
ptc-war days were searched by Karl
Kautsky one OF the radical social lead
are about to be brought into the public
Hgnt. is declared to be fairly good
Bro9f that notnff ow IS SI b ss o wniG n
CAPACITY of the Kaiser's advisers. the
German Socialists being not less in
Kaiser and his government than are
the allied and associated powers.
The forthcoming White Book" Is
diyded into two parts tn; The tir ,5r fon
veafed in hitherto Unpublished secre,
records The second contains all docu-
ments bearing out tho first part.
The documents do not show Berlin's
attitude in those HISTORIC days in a
those who know that numerous d.s-
patch given strongly tend 70 confirm
Won Berchtoid, the former Austro-Hun-
Earan Foreign Minister. in which he
told Universal Service that he was
given to understand that Berlin wanted
aEre ssive action by Austria against
Serbia.
Berlin Demanded Action.
The White BOOK" is understood TO
reveal that Berlin during the first half
and energetic acton for Vienna be-
fore Russia could intervene in Ber-
lin ana so that the conflict would thus
be kept localized
THEN. in the latter half of July Ber-
lin eNerted even stronger pressure in
Vienna III. an, effort TO hold Austria
back. for IN the meantime Berlin had
seen that Russia was nearer ready Tor
war than Berlin mad expected and re-
fused TO be blufed.
Bcri!n, now .aghast at the ,situatio
tried 20 call off Austria and demanded
the diplomatic victory consisting in
the Serbian acGuiescence with the prin-
c!pal demands OF the Austrian ultima
tum) But Vienna had the bit in her
: teeth She would not listen and could
not be held back. She took the role OF
the leader with Berlin following.
The White Book" documents, It |:
said. throw the burden OF the immedi.
ate cause OF the war and blame fol
peace efforts upon Russia who is rep
resented as precipitaiinE by hEr mobil!
cation the world conflict Up to tina
moment the documents tend to show
the. crisis was still localized
The degree OF participatlon by tn,
Kaiser, DR.. Won Bethniann Hollwel
tthcn imperial Chancelor). DIR. Gott,
Heb Won Jagow Uhen Foreign Minister
and others in the events OF those ;hir-
teen days is revealed by the docu.
ments given in the White Book"
Wanted Why Out.
Among others there is a private let
ter from Won Jagow. in which he criti-
cizes the Serbian ultimatum, declaring
that diplomats note may be ever so
sharp, but nevertheless must always be
so drawn as to leave a way out IL the
demands arc not accepted.
The dubious. devious, sinuous mass
OF secret diplomacy is again exposed
in this publication. just as 1t was by
she Vienna Red Book"
Among other things in the White
Book il j. said 10 give renewed proof
10 the public OF the deceptive charac-
ter. the onesidsdness and the utter
worthlessn"ss OF the multi-coiored pre-
vious official books-red white, blue.
orange. etc.--which i. is now seen