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Show TISZA IS BLAMED FOR EUROPEAN WAR NEW" YORK, Aug. 25. That 1 it was Count Tisza and not the aged Emperor Franz Josef who is held responsible by Aust rlans for the Europea n war is the declaration made last night by Rabbi Mayer Kopstcin to his contrrogation here while telling of his experiences as an American refugee in Vienna, when Austria Aus-tria declared war on Servia. Rabbi Kop-fitein Kop-fitein returned on the Noordnm yesterday. yester-day. - "I went to bed com fori a hi - one night in Vienna,' he id, "with plentv of resources re-sources at my i-omm.i nd. r m everv lip that night whs the rwnif of Count Tfsza. The people knew informally that It was , he. who had written the 'ultimatum to i Servia and it was in tho air that Gr- many could he counted on to leap to j Austria's ,aid and that Russia would back up Servia. Thp ne: morning, Hnbhi Kopstein s;iiJ, he whs Taken for a spy, the people being be-ing suspicious of every stnner. He took a train for Germa nv, but on his arrival In Berlin !ip found conditions there wovp than in Virnn. Jn Berlin he was also charged with being a spv, hut secure;! lrts .'release from mobs and She Police by showing his Ame-ican passports. |