Show TO THE BELGIAN PEO it Is to my very great that the th peyman german find thom sei acs compelled t to 0 arps athe I 1 ie belgian frontier Th they eyare are rating under the pf af an unavoidable necessity neutrality having beep beeb T violated al a b by P rench french off leers who in X ngu je crossed BE belgian aglan territory b y moor ator car in order to make their way aa inep germany man belgians I 1 it J Is my greatest wh thai that there m may ay A still be a way of avoiding a conflict between two two nations nations which have hitherto been friends and tit at one time eyen allies remember Te remember member tho the daya of wat wa fooloo where armi arma played tapir partly partin aad T p the independence and ana pros prosperity erity of your country put but lye we must have a tree free passage pass the destruction of bridges of tunnels and of railways rall waya will have to be looked upon as aa hostile acts belgians glans I 1 it is for or you to fo choose 1 I 1 hope the army of the bleuss will not be forced to fight ilahi you A 4 arpe pa cassago for fop attack Is rill ill ive we 0 desire I 1 give formal to the tale belgian population that tha twill t will have nothing to 10 suffer from the horrors of war that we will pay in gald for the provisions provi slops that must be taken from the country county ind and that our sadlers sod lers will prove themselves q the best of friends to a people for whom we feel the highest esteem and the greatest sympathy it rests with your good sense and with sin an intelligent P tell igent patriotism to save your country from the horrors of war the general commanding the army of tho the mouse meuse VON EMMICH this was by the german army among the belgian civil population on august 4 1314 this was the day they violated del belgian ign neutrality and they gilill hoped that the be belshan army WO would id offer no resistance at war sage aage the where this proclamation had been scattered by the uhland 3 civilians shot 8 6 hanged 8 9 others killed hilled in cariou and 25 houses were burnt down |