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Show HARDEN'S INDICTMENT. Maximilian Harden continues to drag from the German and Austrian official archives evidences of Teuton responsibility for the frightful assault on the world's liberties which engulfed Europe and dragged in practically the whole of Christendom. This Berlin editor, ed-itor, who seems bent on the task of further discrediting his countrymen in tho eyes of civilization, for what purpose pur-pose does not at the moment appear, prints an official telegram from Borlin to the ..Austrian foreign office at Vicuna Vi-cuna on July IS, 1,914, in which Germany Ger-many exonerated Serbia from responsibility responsi-bility for the murders at Sarajevo, which was made the pretext for Austria's Aus-tria's peremptory demands on the Serbian government. Ten days later this telegram was cancelled and Germany Ger-many egged Vienna to the declaration of war on Serbia. The cabinet of Franz Josef obeyed tho Berlin instructions instruc-tions and the train was lighted which set the whole of Europe aflame. Harden repeats his charges that the former kaiser had decided that the time was opportune for Germany's long anticipated attempt, to throttle Europe, and that the emperor's yacht-ing yacht-ing excursion to the north was undertaken under-taken after the kaiser and his military mili-tary advisers had framed their policy and decided that war was not to bo avoided but insisted upon. That yachting yacht-ing trip was designed to afford an alibi for William Hohenzollern, in .that he could plead that the decision for war was taken while he was absent from his capital. That very plea was advanced by the refugee of Ameron-gen Ameron-gen soon after the German cut-throat plan was launched. It has been exploded ex-ploded by a thousand evidences of the ex-kaiser's duplicity. Hardon now comes .to buttress the indictment against the wretched marplot. Wilhelm may escape the bar of justice jus-tice and deserved physical punishment, but he cannot hope to come from under the weight of infamy which his conduct con-duct has heaped upon him |