The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-20

or largo order Tor munitions with
French factories.
An attempt on the part OF Russia
To renew the existing treaty failed
In 1890 through Gcrmanys refusal
and In August Of that year Wilhelm
visited Narva. lie reports the ear
on that occasion as having said that
he mated the French relmbll, and
challenged him to corporate In re-
storing the French monarchy. a year
later the kaiser records the fact that
the Belgian minister at 81 Peters
burg reported that the czdr was a
slave of the pam -Slavists aui ,hat
as soon as that party decides 90 fight
the car would have To copscu, IL
1897 appears reference again to
the so-called secret defensive ALI
anco between Russia and China
against Japan and IN 1908 10 the
peace OF Portsmouth, achieved
through the mediation OF Theodore
Roosevelt. with whom William be-
comes modestly friendly William
thanked him for the assistance hc
rendered In that direction.
Succeeded references To Russia
record that Iamsdorff. foreign min
ister. supports France In every in
stance, and the fact that - large
part OF Russian, loan was sub
scribod In London ia 1905. Ia 1908
King Edward VII visited Reval an
william says that an agreement tu'-
lowed concerning war on the central
powers. In 1909 the record elbows
Russia was compelled - reirain
from objccting to AusI.hs Balkan
policy because she was advised
against 40 doing by France and he
cause she was not suffioiently sap
ported In her attitude by Eugiand.
In 1911 William saws thd, lswol-
ski CRussian ambasstdorl complain
ed that the Paris press was not sup
Piled with sufficient moncy TO carry
on the propaganda In question.
Writing Of events on November
12, 1912. the record says that lswoi-
ski reports; England Will rot hear
of pressure being applied nn Turkey,
and then president Raymond,
Poincaire (of France) has rtcog+
nized that a causus foe deiiB would
he given in the event pf "A Russo
Austrian conflict. followed hy the
aimed Intervention OF Germany, auC
that an agreement should be
reached between the English aud the
French staffs.
Events Now March Swiftly.
"Sassonoff has reported To the
czar concerning negotiations with
Grey about an Anglo Russian agree
ment and an audience with king
George at Balmoral and says. we VIII
sink or destroy every German snip
we can get hold off, Writing OF
the gathering wnrclouds an lsl5' the
record says Ambassador Count
Benckendorff announces from Lon
don his impression that France OF
all the powers alone would see war
without regret. At the same time
The kaiser records that Grand Duke
Nicholas visits the Franco-German
frontier during tho autumn" and In
January. 1914. that "A loan of two
and a half billion francs has been
floa4ed in France for the building
of strategic railways.
"On February 21," he continues
there was n conference In ST. fe-
tersburg about a plan OF acton
against Constantfnople. and at which
sassonoff presided. A protoco'
signed by him, by the CRussian
chief of staff and the minister oi
marine proves, first, that the Rus
sian government made military ana
| technical preparations for LANDING
| troops along the Bosphorus; second
| that this procedure was planned al
| a framework for war with Austrla-
not with Turkey--and that ser
bian attack on Austria was takei
| into immediate account with heai
outbreak of war regarded as maj
| ter of course
The growing warclouds were more
| Visible TO the kaiser's eyes when no
wrote OF reports received by him
| "On April 4 the Belgian minister III
| Berlin reports that military ms
| sion has returned from 81. Peters
burg perturbed in the highest meas
| ure by the antl-German feeling pre-
| yailing in Russia"
saw Germany Threatened.
| The kaiser as early as 1884 begaf
IN record in his diary his belief tha'
| Germany was threatened on the con
| tinen. and by England and pickee
| out incidents in support OF TIM
thesis. ,.,,,...,
In 1895 he wrote that Russia apt
Japan have been busy SINCE tn'
nineteenth carving out ois h"N'
| programs. Aa,,
10 launch forth In the same path
zach OF these three nations Is more
| strongly armed on sea than u Ger
| many In 1902 he records Una
tho triple alliance Is renewed.
Then there follows declaration, u
him obviously important that uoc
umcnts seized In Brussels snow Una
Belgium clearly recognized from th'
wear 1897 to tho year l9Ol that
dangerous ring was being laid abou
Germany under England's leader
ship
Thereafter this thought Is upper
most In his mind as events unIoI'
i'm Europe, for under the date o
October IA. 1905, is the statemen
that "Reindi reports from Brusseu
that England Is trying 10 dlstur'
the relations between Germany AM
Russia, and Germanys ISOLATION J
now the main object OF the Eng
lish policy" 80.
Under the date OF January, 1906
he refers briefly to n "conVersalp'
between the English military at
tache IN Brussels) and the Bel
CLAN chief of staff" and asserts tina
the Belgian charge de affairs u
London reports TO Brussels that 81
Edward Grey (British secretary o
state for foreign affairs), says re
peatodly that England has under
taken obligations toward Franc
which she will carry out at all costs
even in case OF a Franco-Gcrmal
war"
yhc War Clouds Gather.
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