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Show GERMANY I AGREED I ON WU I Kaiser's Full Agreement With Austria Is Con- I firmed. I GERMAN TELLS STORY I Ultimatum to Serbia and I Prompt Mobilization H Was Pre-arranged. I I GUMLIOEN, Switzerland. Wednesday. Wed-nesday. June 5 (By the Associated il Press.) Germany was wholly in I effi lH agreement with Austria-Hungary con- ( IH ceming the ultimatum sent to Serbia '1 at the outbreak of the war. says Dr. ; Wilhelm Muehlon. former director of Krupps, in further disclosures on the responsibility for the bringing on of ;' the conflict. Emperor William was personally responsible for Germany's i participation and forced the German leaders to support his war policy. Dr. Muehlon. who was head of the Krupps at the outbreak of the war. and who recently startled Europe with ll his disclosures, received the corre- spondent of the Associated Press at IH his country place here where he is IH now living in retirement. IH Dr. Muehlon's first disclosures which jl caused such B commotion, gavo con- versations with Dr. Karl Helffrlcb. tor- SH mer vice-chancellor, and Dr Krupp von Bohlen. chief owner of the Krupp works, in which both told him the em-peror em-peror had disclosed hiB agreement with Austria-Hungary on tho ultima-turn ultima-turn to Serbia and that. Germany would mobilize Immediately If Russia mobil-ized mobil-ized which would inevitably draw in the other powers rind precipitate a universal war. A document now issued is more de-tailed de-tailed and general and gives day by day notes jnade by Ir Muehlon at the critical time at the opening of the war. f Bl Dr. Muehlon than had gone from the foreign office to th6 directorate of Krupps and his position gave him con-stant con-stant access to tho highest quarters. iH Ho gives glimpses of the chief figures from the emperor down but in the 'H main avoids the mention of names tor reasons of discretion though there aiv likely to be further chapters later giv- ing names, letters and documents fl showing how the highest quarters 'n , S Germany planned systematically for the bringing on of a general war. n :u The whole trend of the present wor'.c Is to show that the world conflict was Vl imposed by the German emperor's per- F sonal military policy and his private i f agreement with Austria on the eve of tho struggle. fl |