Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-28 | Page 1 | Teuton Criminals to Answer

TEUTON CRIMINALS TO ANSWER I r British Prisoners Asked to Intercede in Behalf of Freed Germans, BLAME DYNASTY ! Refer to Autocratic Rulers and Their Barbarous Bar-barous System. HULL, Wednesday, Nov. 27 British Brit-ish civilian prisonerc arriving here from Ruhleben, Germany, say that when they were leaving the prison camp there, a long written document was handed them by the Germans, appealing ap-pealing to them to intercede with the British people in behalf of the people of Germany who "have freed themselves them-selves from the chains of a barbarous barbar-ous system," and not to hold the Germans Ger-mans responsible for the deeds of their former autocratic rulers who are now utterly powerless. BERLIN, Wednesday. Nov. 27. (By The Associated Press) The German Austrian national council is negotiating negotiat-ing with tho Hungarian and Czech governments for the purpose of so-curing so-curing their co-operation in the publication publi-cation of diplomatic pre-war documents docu-ments and in an investigation into the responsibility for and conduct of the war, tho Vienna correspondent of the Vossische Zcitung reports. Recent revelations havo been made, he says, to the effect that former Emperor Em-peror Charles had secretly drawn 1,-600,000 1,-600,000 crown on the army account while charges involving Archduke Frederick and other high officers in connection with army contracts also are to be looked into. Tho diplomatic investigation will be directed chiefly against Count Berch-told, Berch-told, who was Austro-Hungarian foreign for-eign minister when the war broke out, and Count Czernin, later the occupant of that portfolio, the latter being accused ac-cused of summarily rejecting alleged American peace proposals in the fall of 1917 and at the beginning of the present year. The statement made in the Bavarian Bava-rian disclosures to tho effect that the late Count Tisza, then Hungnrinn premier, was opposed to the hostile tone of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum ulti-matum to Serbia is said to conform with the facts. -Count Stucrgkh, tho Austrian premicy, on the other hand is represented ns having proceeded in the manner oi a ruthless dictator. oo I