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Show EMPEROR IS GUILTY. The investigations conducted by a reichstag committee into responsibility for the world war are clinching the evidence evi-dence heretofore at hand fixing primary pri-mary guilt on the former emperor of Germany. The revelations printed in cable dispatches lo The Tribune trace tho authorship of the struggle which drenched Europe in blood to William llohcnzollern. .Marginal notes on diplomatic dip-lomatic correspondence prior to Austria's Aus-tria's demand on Serbia, notes iu-scriled iu-scriled by the kaiser, prove beyond question that I he emperor was resolved on war from the beginning of the Balkan Bal-kan dispute and determined that no .adjust .ad-just meat which would prevent the clash at arms should bo permitted to be arrived at. A fewr of these marginal notes, taken at random from the evidence given the world by tho reichstag investigators, will illustrate the determinedness for war of tlie ruler of Germany at a time when it was still possible to avert armed conflict; "IS'ow or never," was the kaiser's annotation, referring to the matter of a "reckoning with Serbia." When Tschirsky warned Austria against "hasty steps" in dealing with the Serbs, William 's displeasure was evidenced evi-denced by his sharp warning to this minister to "stop his nonsense; this is none of his business"; "bravo" was his annotation when ho heard of the delivery of Austria's ultimatum to the Serbian government, the direct cause of the war; "The proud Slavs just step firmly on the rabble's feel." Count von Berchtold was an "ass" for having declared that Austria wanted want-ed no Serb territory; William demanded demand-ed that Austria, take a largo share of Serb lands; when Count Tisza abandoned aban-doned his antiwar policy and fell into lino with the conspirators against Europe's Eu-rope's peace, the kaiser wrote: "There, now a man for all that," referring to his previous reluctance to drag Hungary Hun-gary into war. Many additional extracts might be reprinted from the mass of evidence collected by the KauU committee for the German reichstag investigators, but the foregoing will suffice to prove that the exile of Anierongen personally wished to challenge the peace of Europe Eu-rope and welcomed the opportunity afforded af-forded by Austria's disput? with Serbia. Ser-bia. It is reasonably clear that Austrian Aus-trian statesmen wore reluctant to take the plunge and were forced to a decision deci-sion by the master marplot of Berlin. This reichstag evidence merely adds to the voluminous proofs of William Hohenzollern 's conspiracy collected by agents of the allied powers. It 's particular par-ticular value lies in the fact that it embraces first person testimony in the shapo of the exiled emperor's own handwriting. Pending the remarkable revelations one cannot escape the conclusion con-clusion that if, as in this instance, personal per-sonal guilt so clearly established is not to be followed by punishment which will be an example for all time in warning to blood-letting ambition then justice will have been c-healed of its rightful dues. |