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Show ENGLISHlEPLT TO CHANCELLOR I Foreign Office Answers Dr. pS Von Bethmann-Hollweg's !bBH Charges of Neutrality 119 Violation. Kill WARLIKE PREPARATION U German's Establishment of iflp9 Elaborate Network of Strat- egical Railways Indicated Her Purpose. PljS London, Jan. 26, 6:04 p. m. The rapSS official information bureau this eve- tvas! nlng issued a statement as follows: w "Tho foreign office, replying offi- PhIs clally to the Interviews with Dr. Von VSa Bethmann-Hollweg, the German im- ftw perial chancellor (published in Amer- 'ol lean January 24 and January 25) ad- lisfe mlts the existence of the documents fffM the Germans have said they found vfit In Brussels, but insists these were sTS purely informal In case the British tf'fjS needed to defend Belgian neutrality. 'te'VjS The Belgian marginal note upon the P'-l record explains that the entry of the IH English into Belgium would only take lU-afc place after the violation of our neu- '4' trality by Germany.' Riil Germany's Warlike Attitude. rViC "If the German chancellor wishes to r at know why there were conversations j on this military subject between Brll- f aS ish and Belgian officers, he may find SeTt I the reason in the fact well known OsTyi I to him, namely that Germany was es- tabllshing an elaborate network of Yfti I strategical railways, deliberately con- fw-jflP structed to permit a sudden attack on S? ;5f i Belgium. This alone was enough to r justify communications between Bel- 'EivM gium and other powers on the foot r-.; ; ing that there would be no violation f ' of Belgian neutrality unless it pre- k viously had been violated by another '.'-vl'N power. On no other footing did Bel fi-i glum ever have such communications. P?$ The particular reference of the Ger- Kdli man chancellor to which the British if--foreign office replies in the foregoing f ! dispatch was published in the United I I ' States the morning of January 25 and I was as follows: r ( Hollweg's Charge Against England. f "England ought really to cease f I harping on the theme of Belgian neu- If i trality. Documents on the Anglo-Bel-! gium military' agreement which we j have found in the meantime show j j plainly enough how England regarded I this neutrality. We found in the archives of the Belgian foreign office of-fice documents which showed that England In 1911 was determined to throw troops Into Belgium without the assent of the Belgian govern- , ment if war had then broken out. In other words to do exactly the same thing for which; with all the pathos of virtuous indignation it now re-proaches re-proaches Germany." Will Be No Peace. j "The government stands lor the scrupulous fulfillment of the emper- j 1 or's manifesto issued the day the war I was declared that so long as a single soldier of the enemy remains on Russian soil no peace will be concluded." con-cluded." In these words Sergius Sazanoff, at a meeting of the ways and means j committee of the Duma, today, an- j swered inquiries propounded by leading lead-ing members of the Duma. These inquiries in-quiries were suggested by the determination deter-mination said to have been reached bv the German reichstag that all ter; I ritory "reddened by German blood." and now occupied by Germany, should j be retained. The committee meeting was preparatory pre-paratory to the opening sessions of j the council of state on January 30 . and of the Duma on February 9. "As to the evacuation of the en-1 emv's territory, we a? bounds by agreement with our allies, ' M. Sara- noff continued. ' The words of the manifesto must not be limited to Rus- , Bian territory." 1 No explanation was made of tne foreign minister's reference to "the I enomv's territory." but it is regarded I as a reference to Gahcia, which, ai- fc though not Russian territory, is char- fjg. acterlzed as being inhabltated by lit-tie lit-tie Russians iT' M Sazanoff said that Great Britain J H had conscientiously assumed the tre- H mendous burden of her share of ttxo ID war. , . The assistant minister of war sam that Russian manufacturers were yj, meeting satisfactorily all the demands H made upon them by the government and that the army commissariat waa lj being maintained efficiently. J H Pierre Kharitouov. secretary or ji H state, and at present acting premier, j said the financial condition of the country was good. It was Intimated that an agreement with Sweden soon I , would be reached, providing for com- . re pletion of railway connections ter , v tween the two countries. sJf- |