Belgium appeals to England, to France, and to Russia to co-operate
as guarantors in the defense of her territory.

There should be a concerted and common action, having as its object
to resist the measures of force employed by Germany against Belgium
and at the same time to guarantee the maintenance of the
independence and integrity of Belgium for the future.

Belgium is happy to be able to declare that she will undertake the
defense of the fortified places. I am, &c.,

(Signed) DAVIGNON,

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.

Where is to be found the alleged military convention said to have been
concluded in 1906 with England? Where is the agreement said to have
existed since 1906 between the Allies to force war on Germany? These
documents clearly prove that such compact never existed.

The Belgian nation preferred ruin and death to the shameful perjury
proposed to her by Germany. For this reason Germany has devastated and
immersed in blood a peaceful little country. Today she seeks to rob her
of honor, her only remaining treasure.

The official documents, the confessions of the German statesmen, the
ruins of Louvain, Malines, Aerschot, Termonde, and of so many villages
burned and razed to the ground, the blood of her children unjustly
massacred are the testimonies which the Belgian people cites before the
tribunal of public conscience. To this tribunal, without fear, the
Belgian Nation confides the cause of her honor.

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BELGIUM'S ANSWER.

Transmitted to The London Times and Published Oct. 23.

The Times of Oct. 14 reproduces a long article from The North-German
Gazette commenting on the discovery in the archives at Brussels of a map
entitled "English Intervention in Belgium" and of a memorandum to the
Belgian Minister of War which goes to prove that in the month of April,
1906, the Chief of the General Staff, on the suggestion of the British
Military Attache and with the approval of Gen. Grierson, had worked out
a plan of co-operation between British expeditionary forces and the
Belgian Army against Germany in the event of a Franco-German war. This
agreement is assumed to have been preceded in all probability by a
similar arrangement with the French General Staff.

The North-German Gazette also publishes certain passages of a report of
the Belgian Minister at Berlin in December, 1911, relating to anothe