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||l THIS OPPORTU fi’a' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1025, e e ———_— ~ &he FAIRS Annual Oreal ./%af Winter Money Saving Bvent: / of MID-WINTER MERCHANDISE NE CLEARANCE at 10:30 O’CLOCK H. s f ALty BEGINS SATURDAY MORNING llllwwm NOW FIND RUSSIA OPPOSED WAR IN'14 Had Advised Serbia Against Re-| res | Stantord University, Calit, Dec. 24 | (Pr—A copy of the minutes of th meeting of the Russ beld July 24, 1914 light on the part Russia the stirring events pr World war, been foun Hoover war library hers and has been translated by Robert C. Bink- | ley, reference librarian, These minutes, Mr ley says have not b cited in all the ten years' efforts to fix responsi- | bility for the war, are sald to show that Russia, instead of helping to | preciplitate the war by urging Ser- bia to resist Austria, as has bcen | charged, took exactly opposite course. They represent Foreign Minister Sarzanov as advising Serbia to refraln from armed resistance | and the other ministers as appro ing this advice. The document also records that | the ministers gave thefr approval to | garzanov's proposal to get in touch | with the other European powers in an effort to persuade the Austro- Hungarlan government to gnm(‘ Serbla a delay In her reply to Aus- tria’s ultimatum resulting from the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Saragjevo. Tt mecting of the Russian ministry was | hé1d on the day after Austria issued her ultimatum so there might be time for the powers to investizate the documents in connection with the Sarajevo assassination the Austro-Hungarian go had in hand; (2) to approve his advice to Serbla that in case she ehould be unable to protect herself to refrain from armed resistance 10 invasion by Austro-Hungary and in- stead to announced that she yielded to force and entrusted her fate to the judgment of the powers; (3) to autharize mobilization of Russian military and naval forcss “according to the progress of events;" (4) to gather stores of war materials; and (5) to authorize the minister of finance to begin at once the with- drawal of funds then in Germany and Austria A later entry indicates tha day after the meeting the cc held a long meting with the czar at his palace, at which he approzed all these actions, broadening the scope of the mobilization plans and joined with his ministers in the de- cision to put the whole nation into a state of preparation for war. « The minutes of the Russian coun eil meeting are contained in a large, heavily bound volume of min rocords obtained in a for the | Hoover war library. her other copies are available here, but it is not be to be found in Russi b particular day's trans mimeographed form, minutes of some otl most of them are The annou ery ing document was made t sistance, Records Disclose Bink- | ved any are This | printed. t of the discov- gether with an & torical aspect in the J ber of “cu t history. Andy Smith Will Get 812,500 for Coaching (P—A con- to call for uary num salary of §12 a se tinua to caach the University of C fornla foot ospital here wi The paper SIerI?nfi'\lmri tion }gnd\ llq \cmnd §|aze the " Sterling Guinea, fan Institution ond leg of their § riving on the liner t Batavia, ing will b o expedi Trees which have had limbs cut off have the or hroken of sca exposed surface strange pow not known | o HOPES FOR AGREEMENT F{]! I 6 ‘ ?g ww 10 French Finance Minfster Still Is | Optimistic Over Fatwe of r’mmw Measures garding the measi 1estoration at the tomorrow morning. He is undefstood owcmm tha opposil to be sec francs (312,00 so considerin | cial transactions In any case hie has dec oduce the bills Saturday, so as to m It the mi sures tomorrow led; otherwise ank end the government ill continue its efforts to f tisfactory formula between close of the 1925 extraord slon and the opening ordinary session Cardinal 0’ Donnell Gets Big Ovation From Irj Belfast, Dec. 24 (P—Torches blaz d and cathedral pealed ir Armagh last nig Cardinal O'Donnell returned s journey {to Rome. The Papal flag, the and the Free State t prominently o strects, bills will filed in Union Jack color fzured 1 the decorations alor were br thronged snowfall ¥ midnight when the 3 replied to his we ers in a speech from the catl |steps. “T will tell you what tatlon of the Holy Fa his hope,” the car: ] said 1t is that Ireland, this TIreland, from shore to shore will unite once more to held aloft tha banner of civiliza tion and lead the nations as it did in the early Christian centur! Vild Elk Are Trampling Down Cotton Fields kerstield, Cal, Dec. 24 (P elk are tramping down the cotton fields in the vieinity of Rio Bravo, adjacent to the great Miller and Lux holdings, and are doing much damage to late h elk come in from the ranges on Moo; the expec- big cattle nights and d r the cotton 1 nutrious oil scad. After eating their fill, it is sald, the elk, sometimes 15 and 20 fn a band, feel so frisky that they spend the rest of the in tearing up and down the fiel many as Qver 400,000 homes of all types built in land and s since the war. 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