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Show ! present Bavarian premier and waa for I forty years the Bavarian diplomatic II representative In Mori In. He volunteered volun-teered to give evidence concerning the authenticity of tha document today. GERMANY'S PART IN IR GAME UPAGAIN Court Action in Berlin Brings to Light Letter of Importance BKRMV April SI tBy A. P. The question of who started the war roppd up again today in a court action ac-tion here and created & mild aensa- , tlon. I During ft hearing on the libel suit brought by Hnr Fechenbach in Mu- , nich against the Huddeutache Monat- , chefte, on the ground that the newa- i paper accused him of falsifying documents docu-ments relating to the responsibility for the war, published when Fechenbach waa secretary to former Premier Els- ner of Bavaria, Kechenbach's counsel produced a letter, said to have been written by Count von Lerchenfeld In December, 1 914. to Count Hertllng, the premier at that time. The following passage occurs In the letter: "We must adhere to the aasertion that Germany was as much surprised by Austria's ultimatum to Herbia aa were all the other powers. We must deny that Count Hertllng knew the contents of the ultimatum before It waa delivered. j Count von Trench enf eld, alleged au-thor au-thor of the letter, Is an uncle to the |