The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-01-14
GERMAN POLICY
UNDERAT
FROM In5I[jE:
IGNORANT OR GUILTY
OF WHAT CAUSED WAR
Austrian Hungarian Alliance
Declared to Be Based on
Junker Rule.
G.ondon Tt:n.s-PuHltc ledger S.':"'c"

C.nndna TiN"s- Public ledger S":E' -
Special ror-rsI ondS:I,,", C"i'E::r"i
i3l". 10y. Public Ledger CO..
l.cNCJN. Dec TIL" F'r1ak:Gr;"r
Zr!tuaG. actcf- q: FRS: ha.:t.!i7G ~"
I;lvac;ln revelations As t. T'Si'ir5s,"i'
il. rc- :he MAJ. puplIS!.s: :, savage g.
tack on Herr Won E"th;:!rni:- t:o.i"HS
and his defense. tn" article = ""F'H
noting for ths confessions w&ch =
contains about German policy. Ter -
admission that < IS ir1possio'r :" corr
promise even Win such representatives
OF German diplomacy rs E"thr''n;-
lIoligeg-ard also because the FrtnN-
furtc- X.iturS StgcHGly supporter
Se,hrena -HoliweE when he was !"
power. and throughout the war has done
more than any "th"r journal 20 Hof1''
German Liberalism.
After the usual general assertion ma
sthe ayholc world - 70 blame ior thH
gar the Fraaktur,rr Zcituas takes Is
.sue with Eethmann's argument tht'
Franco and Russia pursued aims whic''
could only be achieved BY war. ana 'hAS
Athey enjoy tho emphatic support ~
England" 1t proceeds:
-Whether or not tho statements are
itrue about france and ltoSS'a l's .'
seertion about England Is quite 'nsean-
-Eo1r>- IN the arst pIaee HIT Won 81 s,h.
Hnana1-HonHeE himself declared IN puo-
Stc NOT 40 long before the WAY. that the
.Tnxltsh government had St-aTen loEa.Iy
.nnS successfully, together with toe
:(7er,nau government tor tho comps
t4ion Of the Balkan troubles ana 'ue
:settleroenc az the Balkan wars "llnou.
n, world coneaEration SeeonoS.
+n.t dccaratiou by Bethrna1ln had
.19..n otsr Diplomatic deccptioH--a tn'os
>--,bich We Go not b~lieve--and II. there
-rore his real conviction was sHat r'"T
.1,nd vas making for war. what H!ec
A,ess must have controlled puhE:
.-bich ,rss absolutely incapable OF I'M"
.-,S means TO concilate eltneT ito'N,'N
Ny England by CONCESSIONS III ln-S "
erection or in that. ana ~hIC" ''o" 49,
t,rr unparalleled bankruptcy. S;!t' IT,
t,,.ats With positively stu7i! stao"". t"
,Dsss T had 70 do Il: there vas no eth''
Scourse open 10 inc. .-or,a
{ What sort O. cnrc'SSionS
}-se.hnaaun have had :" max.
I knows precisely. II" COMPLAINS '''t;
was above all ;h> s"-cailed HaraI 90:
which led US INT" ~" mos u'. - .,n
h.otacoa!sns Ind any one eve.
Ea.vrb;nr more pitiable: Here S'a"GS
- nan who since i2n2 b"r. the sou,
Responsibility for :ih" Sn-'2!'H" '''a.,,
<ool;cy.' and now RI co:'"ia'aS' - "''9
no, T: II was 'rirp:;I
Did not tho EngI!sh s"y'F".'m,'.
make attempts 70 SomH">" r,ot
quarrel By ta!r a. - I:I
800 Haldanr IN Berlin n l"i-. ana w."
,-cnree 4 treaty which WOULD
I,ore lecc US only Il moderate o.s''"|'
tohi,d the English nay t'cthts'""''
Iia no. accept this proposal. ana w.
raj, know ,hc reason. No. psE''uHc ''
ia nor himself desire /. and NOT %
,ause he would not h2Er rs'"~ u ".-
Ills solution as thoroughly sH'' ''''':
FOR Gerrnany's just interests. "uN , ~.
miserable cnwardicc IN tace OF ',''s"
,rI his journalistic satellites, ana ~
. s ~ -. ,,,oudnnt and cri.n:Ha! prop
uganda which ran the "ttice OF 'ne ..',
rl,r;,1 navy ~ the cos: Of IN" German
taxpayer
Eethmann-RonweG.
The FrankfUrt"r Zs;iuns th'a -,
equally violent ianGuag" aH"ht n: w.
man policy toward Au-tT;a-H"n1Its ;
declaring that everybody from .".
laiser downward was ignorant ot 90
true situation. and that Germany q"
lance policy was r"aliE hess' "',nn
brutal junker Tuis' or 'he -
The article proceeds:
.rU-ha, sort Of statesman Bcthnatsa-
1I,uwecr is is shown with hpVe.o'f
,1carncss BIZ his remarks about the as
astrous Austrian ulti:rat!UCn 70 St'oia'
This ultirnatum was war. Every XIX"
naper reader knew -. and even 4 ''''
man imperial chancellor must "''
known it. The then German hApcr',"
CHANCELLOR. according 70 dis So'"snh'y
repeated assurance, was not aEd"'''.,,'
N advance with tho t"Vrio.H u'.''"'S" 't
not tho text Of il. not for MS ""H
nerson.- although his SuhordiaatHS ma!
have known Il. Apart from what "a
. gov and zimmerqlann had to say. '!'';
conductor Of tn" Nicru,:Ln "Enpir" con
sidered it compatible with hls' duty NOT
~ bother about The form .; Il oocu-
,unent upon whose words Tho fate OF me
world hung. Fc lcft the drafting 20
silly tool liiio Count EHr"htold ~ wen
ma: Germany had nothing u u" VIVA
It but to perform her duties as an an: .
1--WE do not want 20 giant h"'h''A''t ,
guilt still blacker than II IS. lleGe hs",,'
- was out OF cowardica that ne l't