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Show REPORT TELLS HUN WAR PLOT - Bavarian Minister at Berlin Ber-lin Publishes Data Relative Rela-tive to Conspiracy. Germans and Austrians Work in Harmony to Cause Titanic Struggle. LONDON, Monday, Nov. 5. (British "Wireless Service. Publication of official reports from the Bavarian minister at Berlin to his home government confirm evidence in the hands of the entente thai Germany and Austria conspired to bring about the war. It was Vor this reason that the terms of Austria's ultimatum to Serbia were made so drastic that hos-r hos-r tilities were bound to follow. These- revelations have been published in Munich, after permission had been asked by ..e Bavarian premier and foreign for-eign minister of the German federal government. gov-ernment. They are in the form of a report re-port sent to Munich July 18, 1914, by Gount von V.erchenfeld, the Bavarian minister at Berlin. Ultimatum Delayed. According to the report, the delivery of the ultimatum to Serbia was delayed until after President Poincare and Premier Pre-mier Vivian! of France had gone to St. Petersburg, which would make it dlffi- ult 'for the entente nations to arrive at an understanding and take counter-measures. counter-measures. Count von Lerchenfeld said that "Serbia "Ser-bia obviously cannot accept such conditions condi-tions as will be laid down," and that as a consequence "there must be war." He declared that action on the part of Austria Aus-tria could not be long delayed, "for that might give Serbia, under pressure from Franco and Russia, an opportunity to offer of-fer satisfaction." In a telegram to Munich from Berlin on July 31, 11) 4, Count von Lerchenfeld said that Sir Edward Grey's efforts to preserve peace would "certainly not succeed suc-ceed in arresting the course of events." Telegraphed Data. Later the same day he wired information informa-tion as to ultimatums to Russia and France, forecast their rejection by both nations and told of plans to hurl Germany's Ger-many's armies against France, which, he said, would be "overwhelmed in four weeks." He said that the morale, of the Kronen army was poor and that it was poorly armed. On August 4 the Bavarian minister outlined out-lined Germany's intention to violate Belgian Bel-gian neutrality, saying: "The chief of the general staff has de- elared that even British neutrality will bo paid for too dearly if the price is respect re-spect of Belgium. An attack on France is possible only through Belgium." |