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Show BELGIAN EXPLAINS FIND BY GERMANS i New York, Dee. 21 E. Havenith. Belgian minister to the United States who is in this city, tonight issued a statement dealing with certain doc-uaicnts doc-uaicnts which are said to have been found in the Belgian government archives at Brussels by German officials. of-ficials. Concerning these papers which, as he puts it, "the German goeniment claims prove that Belgium violated her own neutrality," neu-trality," he said ' The Belgian government is unable to see how It can be said that these documents constitute a proof of an agreement between England and Belgium Bel-gium against Germany unless one ac copts the idea that Germany had a right to violate Belgium's neutrality nnd that all measures taken as a pre- I caution against violation of neutrality neutral-ity must thereforo have been taken I against Germany. "The document contain merely conversations between military officers offi-cers in regard to a possible future co-operation of their armies in the 'M event of violation of Belgian territory terri-tory by Germany. They never even resulted in an agreement between those governments, military attaches having no authority to make such agreements. "The events that happened last August Au-gust and the sudden invasion of Belgium Bel-gium by Germany l-Iiow that the Brit- isii government was fully justified in I!' fearing the violation of Belgian terri- JHj tory by Germany." r 1 -Ml |