There should be a concerted and common action, having as its object
to resist the measures of force employed by Germany against Belgium
and at the same time to guarantee the maintenance of the
independence and integrity of Belgium for the future.
Belgium is happy to be able to declare that she will undertake the
defense of the fortified places. I am, &c.,
(Signed) DAVIGNON,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.
Where is to be found the alleged military convention said to have been
concluded in 1906 with England? Where is the agreement said to have
existed since 1906 between the Allies to force war on Germany? These
documents clearly prove that such compact never existed.
The Belgian nation preferred ruin and death to the shameful perjury
proposed to her by Germany. For this reason Germany has devastated and
immersed in blood a peaceful little country. Today she seeks to rob her
of honor, her only remaining treasure.
The official documents, the confessions of the German statesmen, the
ruins of Louvain, Malines, Aerschot, Termonde, and of so many villages
burned and razed to the ground, the blood of her children unjustly
massacred are the testimonies which the Belgian people cites before the
tribunal of public conscience.
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