Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-06

Special Cable Dispatch to Universal Services
Copyright, 1919. by Universal Service
snt. N Sfssn and
Rotterdam, Holland, Dec. Sin
the subjoined fourth chapter of the
book of revelations" compiled for
the German republican government
by Socialist Deputy Kautsky, as
sisted by Prof .Schuecking and
Count Won Montgelas, important
additional extracts are from some
of the 900 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
unconditional support" with which
Germany legged on" Austria in its
plans for the partition of Serbia.
They tend to show that Wilhelm
strasse hoped and believed that a
general European conhagration
could be averted ifias a elimination
to the secret anti-Serbia diplomacy
the world could be confronted with
the accomplished fact of Austrian
occupation of most of Serbia.
Pursue Former Policy.
In this respect Vienna and Ber-
lin were pursuing the identical pol
icy followed at the time of Austria's
annexation of Bosnia and Herze-
govina, when Germany defnately
annodnced to the world that any
power opposing that high 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 threat
that Berlin and Vienna
believed they could repeat that per-
Torrance and that having once EN-
barked on this great gamble. they
went ahead, regardless of the con-
sequences until, when they saw a
world conhagration was inevitable,
the half hearted, vacillating efforts
to avert it came to late to extingulsh
the fast spreading flames.
Ignore British Mediation.
On July "a, after the Austrian
ultimatum had been delivered t.
Serbia, Germany told France and
Russia through its ambassadors that
''if any outside power should seek
to intervene Germany would be
found on thesside of its ally The
documents give ground for the be-
lief that Berlin hoped this apd other
threats would keep these two pow
ers out of the conflict, and the
kaiser's notes to Bethmann-Holl-
veg, published yesterday, showed
he had hoped England would stay
out. Nevertheless, the documents:
show that the deliberate duplicity OF
Wilhelmstrasse, especially with re-
gard to the English mediation ct.
forts. steered the two empires, and
subsequently the world, straight in
to the abyss of the great war.
Today's chapter showed turther
light on the Machiavellian attitude
taken by DR.. Gotlieb Won Jagow,
then German foreign minister, to.
ward Sir (now viscounD Edward
Grey's attempts at mediation: 1t
shows that Jagow transmitted the
proposal to the German
ambassador at Vienna without, how
ever. instructing him to submit this
proposal to 1.-THE Austrian, foreign
minister, Count Won Berchtold. ia.
cow thus was in a position to tell
London without lying that he had
actually transmitted it to Vienna
he had been advising
Vienna by all means to ignore each
and every mediatory proposition.
Kaiser Visits Ferdinand.
, The fresh reveal tons, in chronicle
order follows:
About the middle of June, 1914,
when to all appearances perfect
peace prevailed throughout Europe,
here took place in Vienna a confer
,nce between Count Won Berchtold
and Archduke Ferdinand, heir to
The Austrian throne. The kaiser had
rad a visit with Francis Ferdinand
and had seized the occasion for
eng heart to heart talk with the
rrchduke.
The German ambassador in
Vienna, Herr Won Tschirschky, re-
ported to Berlin on June II that the
archduke had expressed himself