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. ¹ On
that day the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, 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 but 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
1 P.M., was purposely delayed for hours in the Berlin
office.]

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