Herr Haase, the German Minority Socialist, in a recent speech
kr the Reichstag on the origins of the war, referred to "the meeting of July 5th, 1914," as a matter that required explanation. In last Saturday's Times a well-informed correspondent states that the meeting, never before mentioned publicly, was an Austro-
• German Conference, held at Pot:dam, to decide on the terms of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, and to prepare for the war with Russia which the ultimatum would render virtually inevitable. The German Emperor presided, and afterwards left for his yachting cruise to Norway, to throw the RUSSISTIB and French off the scent. Herr von &Tow and Count Moltke, the correspondent adds, were not present, so that Herr von Jagow could • truthfully deny, as he did, that he knew of the Austrian ultimatum before it was presented on July 23rd, 1914,
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