s war.

The Austro-Hungarian and German people have a clear conscience and
need fear no misrepresentation of their action.

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A DISCORDANT NOTE.

By Count Michael Karolyi, Leader of Hungarian Independent Party, New
York, July 27.

If Austria had pursued a policy of directly helping the Balkan
countries, if Austria had in the past made it a point to be
actively their friend, this war would not confront us. Since it has
come, of course all Hungarians will support the empire and internal
differences will be dismissed while the empire is imperiled.

As for the loyalty of the many Serbs within Austria-Hungary it is
hard to say. There again we must hope that they will take the
Austrian side. But the Austrian policy toward the Balkan countries
has been wrong, all wrong.

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A German Review of the Evidence

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Certified by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, German Ex-Colonial
Secretary.

_The following is presented as a complete defense of the German position
in the present war and is based upon examination of the German and
English "White Papers." It was prepared in Germany and forwarded to Dr.
Bernhard Dernburg, who had it translated for_ THE NEW YORK TIMES _of
Nov. 1, 1914_.

_Dr. Dernburg gives this statement his full approval and accepts complete
responsibility for it._

Two of the five great European powers that are at present engaged in
war, Austria-Hungary and Russia, whose differences for years have been
constantly increasing in sharpness, and after the tragedy in Serajevo
became impossible to be bridged by diplomacy, conjured up the frightful
struggle.

With these two, two other powers are so closely united by alliances that
their participation in the war also was unavoidable; they are Germany
and France.

There are two other great European powers whose relations to the two
aforesaid groups before the war were very much alike in the essential
points. Just as Italy was politically tied by alliance to the central
powers, so England was with the Franco-Russian Alliance. Hence it was
uncertain how these countries, each geographically removed from the main
body of the Continent, would act in a war, and it seemed quite possible
that both would decide to remain neutral.

As a matter of fact, the Italian Government