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Show i oo Newspapers Give First Information Infor-mation From Russian Source on Michaelis' Story. GERMANS ARE BLAMED Mobilization of Kaiser's Troops Was Secretly in Progress Before Be-fore Public Proclamation. COPENHAGEN. Sept. 7. With tho arrival of Russian newspapers, some light is thrown on the campaign which the German government has been conducting con-ducting on the strength of testimony brought out at tho trial of General Soukhomlinoff in Petrograd for high treason. Accounts of the trial published pub-lished in the Novoe Vremya of Petrograd Petro-grad show that in the attempt to prove that Russia was responsible for beginning be-ginning the war, the Germans deliberately delib-erately suppressed important parts of tho testimony given by General Jau-uschkevitch, Jau-uschkevitch, former chief of the Russian Rus-sian general staff. Germans Omit News. In Its report of the trial the semi-ofllcial semi-ofllcial German news agency omitted in its entirety a passage regarding an interview between General Januschke- vitch the German military attache in Petrograd. It appears from tho Novoe No-voe Vremya that General Januschke-vitch Januschke-vitch testified reports had been received re-ceived that German mobilization already al-ready was secretly in progress. The Russian staff knew that this could be done, under tho Gorman law without formal proclamation, whereas in Russia Rus-sia a public manifesto from tho emperor em-peror was necessary. On the following day a dispatch was received from the Russian ambassador at Berlin confirming tho previous information in-formation that the German mobilization mobiliza-tion was In progress. Tho emperor then expressed his thanks to General Januachkevitch for not having revoked revok-ed the mobilization order. Michaelis' "Irrefutable" Story. Tho foregoing dispatch gives the first Information from a Russian source in regard to tho testimony in which tho Gorman chancellor, Dr. Michaelis, said earlier in tho week, established "irrefutnbly" that it was tho military party around the Russian czar and not Germany which choso the timo for tho war. The chancellor said that if tho American government had had knowledge of this testimony, Its judgment as to tho responsibility for the war, as expressed in the president's pres-ident's reply to tho pope, would havo been quite different. The principal point made by Dr. Michaelis was that tho Russian emperor, em-peror, convinced at length of tho German Ger-man emperor's desire for peaco, ordered order-ed concellation of the mobilization order or-der but that "a couple of criminals" disregarded the order and thwarted its execution. No reference is mado by the chancellor to tho suppressed testimony which is now at hand, Indicating Indi-cating that the Russian staff had then learned the German mobilization was . in process secretly, and that when this I fact had been established definitely the Russian emperor thanked his ch-ief of staff-for not having carried out the order to cancel tho mobilization decree. |