offers Great Britain not to annex Belgian
territory. Great Britain demands that Germany respect Belgian
neutrality, and in default of reply declares war on Germany.

August 5, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

August 6, 1914. Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary.

August 9, 1914. Serbia declares war on Germany.

August 10, 1914. France declares war on Austria-Hungary.

August 12, 1914. Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary.

August 12, 1914. Montenegro declares war on Germany.

August 23, 1914. Japan declares war on Germany.

August 27, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Japan.

August 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Belgium.

November 3, 1914. Russia declares war on Turkey.

November 5, 1914. France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey.

May 23, 1915. Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

June 3, 1915. San Marino declares war on Austria-Hungary.

August 20, 1915. Italy declares war on Turkey.

October 14, 1915. Bulgaria declares war on Serbia.

October 15, 1915. Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.

October 19, 1915. Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria.

WARNINGS OF HOSTILE INTENTIONS

The first evidence presented before the court of nations was that of
France, in regard to the hostile intentions of Germany. To this
Germany has made no official answer in the form of documentary
evidence, and any inference as to the hostile intentions of France
against Germany, if there were any, must be inferred by the reader
without any help from cross-examination by the official advocates of
Germany. The value of the French evidence must be judged by later
events. Have they, or have they not, corroborated the anticipations
of France, held for a year before the war, as to an attack upon her
by Germany?

On March 17, 1913, M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador at Berlin,
wrote to M. Jonnart, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Paris,
transmitting reports by French military and naval attaches in Berlin
to their respective French departments on German military affairs,
and called his attention to the importance of the documents. Delay,
he said, in the publication of the reports was due to lack of funds
wherewith to provide for these military measures. The rich classes
objected to a forced levy in times of peace, and the Federal states
to the Imperial Government adopting direct taxation which had
heretofore been reserved to them.

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