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Show British Foreign Office I Admit Existence of Belgqiri Documents London, Jan. 2G. Tho oulclnl information in-formation bureau this ovcnlng IssuoJ a statement as follows: ".Tho foreign olllco reply offU.'ally to tho Interviews with Dr. Von Doth-ninnn-Hollwcg, tho (lorninu imperial chancellor (published In America, Jan. 24 and Jan. 25), admits tho existence of the documents tho Germans Ger-mans havo said thoy found In Brussels, Brus-sels, but Insists thoso woro purely Informal In-formal In caso tho British needed to defend Belgian neutrality. Tho Bol-glnn Bol-glnn marginal noto upon tho record explains that "tho entry of the English Eng-lish Into Belgium would only tako place after tho vlolntlon of our neutrality neu-trality by Germany." The particular reference of tho German Ger-man chancellor to which tho British foreign office replies In tho foregoing dispatch wns published In this country coun-try the morning ot January 25 and was as follows: "England ought rea'ly to ceaso harping on the thomo of Belgian neutrality. neu-trality. Documents on tho Anglo-Belgium Anglo-Belgium military agreement which wo havo found In tho meantime show plainly enough how England regarded this neutrality. Wo found In tho archives of the Belgian foreign olllco documonts which showed that Eng-laud Eng-laud In 1911 was determined to throw troops Into Belgium without tho assent as-sent ot the Bolglan government It wnr had then broken out. In othor words, to do Qxactly the samo thing for which, with nil tho pathos of virtuous Indignation It now reproaches reproach-es Go ninny " "If tho German chancellor wishes to know why thoro wero conversations conversa-tions on this military subject between British and Bo glnn officers, ho may find tho reason In tho fact well known to him, namely, that Germany was establishing es-tablishing nn elaborate network of strategical railways deliberately constructed con-structed to permit n sudden attack on Belgium. This nlono was enough to Justify communications between Bel-glum Bel-glum nnd othor powers on tho footing foot-ing that there would bo no violation of Bel tlum neutrality unless It provt-ouslq provt-ouslq ind been violated by nnothor power On no other footing did Bel-glum Bel-glum ' vcr haio such communications.' |