Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-01 | Page 8 | French Issue Yellow Book

FRENCH ISSUE YELLOW BOOK I . i Paris, Nov. AO The French foreign for-eign office today gae out a yellow i book, which recites the French iew-I iew-I oint of the events which led up to I the present war This book reviews at length the I diplomatic exchanges previous to the ! declaration of war An abstract given I cut by the foreign office lays em-pnasi3 em-pnasi3 upon the responsibilities of I Austria as primal cause of the con-I con-I flict and says that Germauy persist-i persist-i ently avoided every opportunity to i t.dopt measures of conciliation and lc-ach a settlement In Its presentation of the case the French foreign office places the responsibility re-sponsibility fully upon Austria and Germany and relates that Great Britain, Brit-ain, Russia and France were ready to adopt means of settlement, but that the Teuton allies would not consent. con-sent. Germany's ultimatum to Russia iB said to have precipitated the rupture. France, according to the book, exhausted ex-hausted ever)' possible avenue of conciliation con-ciliation before she decided to draw the sword to defend her very life