OCR Text |
Show CLAIMS FRANCE f DESIRED PEftC CAUSE OF WAR REVIEWED t I LENGTH IN YELLOW BOOK SUED BY FREN-CH MINISTRY, j Places the Responsibility Upon a. j tria and Germany and Declare! ! That Allies Attempted to Se-cure Se-cure Settlement. Paris. The French foreign c!; on Monday gave out a yellow k ; which recites the French viewp. ; of the events which led up to ! present war. J This book reviews at length the c ! lomatic exchanges previous to declaration of war. An abstract !! out by the foreign office lays , phasis upon the responsibilities 11 Austria as primal cause of the flict and says that Germany per; ently avoided every opportunity adopt measures of conciliation reach a settlement. . j1"1" In its presentation of the case ' ,, French foreign office places the sponsibility upon Austria and r ,.j many, and relates that Great Bri' Russia and France were ready j j j adopt means of settlement, . but the Teuton allies would not con; tfaj Germany's ultimatum to Russii yj, said to have precipitated the ruy. ,lar France, according to the book, t hausted every possible avenue of r , ciliation before she decided to i w the sword to defend her very lL't j torn. |