The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-14
BRITISH Are
RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE War
Kaiser Bill Has Dreams of Shift.
ing Burden of the
Blame.
is WRITING HISTORY
OF PRE-WAR EVENTS
Declares That for 80 Years He
Maintained Peace i'm
Europe.
(ey The Associated prsss).

THE HAGUE, March 13.-In the
book he has written for private dis
tribution in an attempt to show that
world war, former Emperor William
of Germany throughout always speaks
of himself in the third person. He
paints William II as a man who tried
for 80 years to maintain peace in Eu-
rope, but says he was foiled by the
perfidious Vaccinations of Great Brit
ain, France and Russia.
AS long ago as 1905, the former kai-
ser says, he tried to found a league
of nations.
Although no full copy of the book
is yet available and both the former
emperor's encourage and the Dutch
and German governments worried be-
cause of the publication of brief eX
tracts from it, sufficient of the con-
tents of the volume have leaked out
to indicate the general trend of the
entire work. The leak was princi-
pally due to the Berlin correspondent
of the Rotterdam MaasbOde.
The correspondent says the book
begins with notes as far back at 1884
CWilliam succeeded his father as king
and emperor in 1889.
"In some places" says the Mas
BODIES correspondent, the document
is very interesting, especially notes of
Aug. 18, 1891, where he treats of the
visit of William to Car Alexander III
at Narvik, when the Car said he hated
the French republic and wanted to re-
store a monarchy in France. But al
ready says the kaiser, a Russian
French military agreement had been
negotiated saying that in the event Of
the mobilization of any member of the
triple alliance (DriebundD mobiliza-
tion of French and Russian forces
would be ordered Immediately and
these armies thrown into action at
once"
Under date of April IS, 1898, the for
mer emperor wrote:
"An English proposal for an alliance
of Germany against Russia is declined
in order not to endanger the worlds
peace"
At the same time Delcasse (then
French minister of foreign affairs)
proposed to the German ambassador
in Paris a German-F French agreement
in order to prevent the Portuguese
colonies falling under British inf1u-
ence. This proposal was not answered.
The former emperor also claims that
he drafted a project for a league of
nations under date of March "a, 1905.
"a proposal" says the book, was
made by the former kaiser to the czar
and to Witte (then Russian foreign
minister) to found a league of ma
tions consisting of the triple alliance
and the French and Russian alliance,
with the understanding also that other
groups or separate countries may be-
come members of the league. The
proposal was accepted by the czar and
| Witte. There was no question as to
presidential power over this league"
Regarding the mission to Germany
in February 1912, of discount Haldane
CThen British lord high chancenor),
the book says:
German efforts to conclude neutral
| ity with England failed in consequence
of the absurd demand for a cessation
of development of the German fleet
through the curtailment of the build
ing of new ships"
The former emperor in the book
deals with the mobilization of 1914.
He says this began as early as April
of that year, and the mobilization of
the English banks in order to get large
| stocks of gold.
Then the kaiser continues:
"June-Beginning of preparations
for mobilization in England.
June 15-Russian troops called to
arms in April and May under the pre-
tense that they were to serve in ma
| neuvers and being kept under arms
for an outbreak of war"
July 20-All the Belgian reserve
| officers have been called to arms"
Regarding the refusal of the sug-
gestion by Russia to submit the Serb
| ian incident to The Hague court of
arbitration, the former emperor says:
THE proposal of the czar was not
approved. Russia wanted in this way
to gain time to prepare for war.
"On Aug. 4, Sir Edward Grey (the
British foreign secretary demands of
Germany that Germany halt her of
fensive march of troops in Belgium or
otherwise England will protect Bel
gium. This was the English declara-
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