Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-26 | Page 11 | Reply is Issued by British Bureau to Critics

REPlY IS ISSUED BY BRITISH BUREAU U UTO TO CRITICS LO LONDON L DON Jan 26 The The official in formation bureau this evening A statement as follows The Tho I Tho foreign office reply officially to the interviews with mth Dr Dron von on Bethmann Hollweg the German imperial chancel chance lor br published in America T January 2 24 and January 25 5 admits admit the existence of the documents doc the tho Germans have hav said they thy found in Brussels lel but insists insist these thelo were purely informal in enso caso 50 tb the British needed to defend Belgian neu non The Belgian mar marginal note not upon the rf record ord explains explain that It the tb entry entry en en- try tn of the tho English into Belgium would o only l fake taka ako place after the violation o of our neutrality by Germany f J The particular reference of tho the German Ger Ocr man chancellor to which the British foreign for for- ti eign n office replies in the foregoing dill dis dispatch patch was wan a published in this country th the tho morning of oC January 25 and was vas a as fol follows fol lows IlEn England ou ought ht really to cease harp harp- in ing on OD the theme themo of Belgian neutrality Document Documents on oc the tho Belgium Anglo mif mW- tar tar tary which we have hac fountin found fount in n the tho meantime show plainly enough how England n land re regarded this neutrality We found in in tho the archives es of tho Belgian i n foreign office which showed that En England in 1911 was determined determine to throw troops into Belgium without t tho the assent of the Bel Belgian ian government o Dt i iwar jf if war had then thon broken out In other othe words word to do exactly the same lame thing fo for which with all alt the pathos of virtuous indi indignation it now reproaches Ger Oer her her- many 1