To this tribunal, without fear, the
Belgian Nation confides the cause of her honor.
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BELGIUM'S ANSWER.
Transmitted to The London Times and Published Oct. 23.
The Times of Oct. 14 reproduces a long article from The North-German
Gazette commenting on the discovery in the archives at Brussels of a map
entitled "English Intervention in Belgium" and of a memorandum to the
Belgian Minister of War which goes to prove that in the month of April,
1906, the Chief of the General Staff, on the suggestion of the British
Military Attache and with the approval of Gen. Grierson, had worked out
a plan of co-operation between British expeditionary forces and the
Belgian Army against Germany in the event of a Franco-German war. This
agreement is assumed to have been preceded in all probability by a
similar arrangement with the French General Staff.
The North-German Gazette also publishes certain passages of a report of
the Belgian Minister at Berlin in December, 1911, relating to another
plan of the Belgian General Staff, in which the measures to be taken in
case of the violation of Belgian neutrality by Germany are discussed.
Baron Greindl pointed out that this plan dealt only with the precautions
to be taken in the event of an aggression on the part of Germany, while,
owing to its geographical situation, Belgium might just as well be
exposed to an attack by France and England.
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