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should shun or resent their perfectly adjusted, even 

 "divinely ordained" system of enforced Kultur and 

 discipline. 



[The material in foregoing paragraphs is derived 

 from personal statements by German "friends of 

 peace," and for the most part cannot be documented. 

 From the same sources I have information regarding 

 Russian general mobilization decreed on July 30, 

 1914, and the circumstances which led up to it.^ On 

 that day the Berlin Lokal Aiizeiger, a militarist 

 journal reputed to be directed by the Crown Prince, 

 published the statement that mobilization had just 

 been ordered in Germany, and posted placards in 

 various cities to that effect. The edition was soon 

 suppressed by the government hut not until numerous 

 copies had been distributed and the news telegraphed 

 to Russia, where it created great excitement and led to 

 an order of mobilization there. When {and not before) 

 this supposedly desired result had been obtained, a tele- 

 gram of contradiction was sent to St. Petersburg. 

 It is also reported that the official denial, dated at 

 I P.M., was purposely delayed for hours in the Berlin 

 office.] 



^ This is, of course, to anticipate events by almost a year. 



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