re world back into the darkness
of slavery, we shall have failed in our task, and the blood shed in
the fight for Liberty will have been shed in vain.

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APPENDICES

The following irrefutable documents, selected from among thousands of
others which history will record, prove better than any other means
how the Germans understand war and peace. They deserve a place in this
volume because they demonstrate why and against what France is
fighting.

APPENDIX I

HOW GERMANS FORCED WAR ON FRANCE

Answering to the Pope, in September, 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II declared
"_that he had always regarded it as his principal and most sacred duty
to preserve the blessing of Peace for the German people and the
world_." More recently, driving through the battlefield of Cambrai,
the Kaiser, according to the war correspondent of the Berlin
_Lokalanzeiger_, exclaimed: "God knows what I have not done to prevent
such a war!"

A document made public by M. Stephen Pichon, French Foreign Minister,
shows exactly how, in the last days of July, 1914, the Kaiser tried
"to preserve the blessings of Peace for the German people and the
world" and what he did "to prevent such a war."

Speaking at the Sorbonne, in Paris, on March 1, 1918, M. Pichon said:

I will establish by documents that the day the Germans
deliberately rendered inevitable the most frightful of wars
they tried to dishonor us by the most cowardly complicity in
the ambush into which they drew Europe. I will establish it
in the revelation of a document which the German Chancellor,
after having drawn it up, preserved carefully, and you will
see why, in the most profound mystery of the most secret
archives.

We have known only recently of its authenticity, and it
defies any sort of attempt to disprove it. It bears the
signature of Bethmann Hollweg (German Imperial Chancellor at
the outbreak of the war) and the date July 31, 1914. On
that day Von Schoen (German Ambassador to France) was
charged by a telegram from his Chancellor to notify us of a
state of danger of war with Russia and to ask us to remain
neutral, giving us eighteen hours in which to reply.

What was unknown until today was that the telegram of the
German Chancellor containing these instructions ended with
these words:

_If the French Government declares it w