Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
STRUGGLE PLANNED
BY ALLIES IN 1905,
GERMANY STATES
Kaiser's Staff Declares Bel
gian Archives Show De-
tails of Campaign Were
Arranged Eight Years Ago

BERLIN. Oct. 10.
AS long ago as 1905 England and Bel
gium had worked out military and naval
plans in case Germany should ever in
wade Belgium, according to statement
given out by the German General Head
quarters.
This statement is based upon reports
found in the archives of the Belgian Gov
eminent at Brussels.
These reports detail a plan by which
the English were to land an expeditionary
army in Belgium, which was to be fed
and transported in Belgium and to be
served by Belgian spies and interpreters.
The report Of the German General
Headquarters follows:
German military authorities, search
ing the archives of the Belgian General
staff at Brussels, discovered a portfolio
inscribed English Intervention in Bel
gium,' which contains some important
documents
"One of these is report to the Bel
CLAN Minister of War, dated April TO- 1906
which gives the result of detailed nego-
tlations between the chief of the Belgian
General STAFF and the British Military
attache at Brussels, Lieutenant Colonel
Bernardiston. This plan Is of English
origin and was sanctioned by Lieutenant
General Sir James NJ. Grierson, chief
of the British General Staff 1t sets
forth the strength and formation, and
designates landing places for an expe-
ditionary force of 10000 men, It gives
the details OF plan for the Belgian Cen
eral staff to transport, feed and find
quarters for these men in Belgium and
provides for Belgian interpreters. The
landing places designated are Dunkirk.
Calais and Boulogne.
Lieutenant Colonel Berna rd,s.o, q,
quoted as having remarked that for the
present Holland could not be relieu upon.
Another confidential communication
declares that the British Government.
after the destruction of the German navy
would send supplies and provisions bv
way or Antwerp. There is also the suE-
gestion from the English military attache
that Belgian system of espionage shouId
be organized in the Prussan Rhineland
"A second document iS map showing
the strategical positions of the French
army and demonstrating the existence OF
a Franco-Belgian agreement, and n third
is a report from Baron Greindl the Bel
gian Minister at Berlin, to the Belgian
Foreign Office, dated December %, 1911"
PARIS, Oct. 1s.
Roland de Mares. editor of L'Independ- |
ence beige, VINO is In PariS, writing in |
the Temps, denies absolutely the respon- |
slbilty Of King Albert of the Begians |
for the present war. The Frankfurter |
Heitung charged that King Albert was |
won over for the ambitions of France and |
England.
ut is false" NJ. de Mares writes, that |
King Albert began negotiations with Eng |
land. The opinion was current that in
case of an invasion Belgium could no
longer expect aid from England, although |
IT obtained aid in 1870. This fact was
used as an argument by those favoring
the recent augmentation of the Belgian
army. 1t is false that King Albert at
the end of July and before war vas de-
clared, secretly asked the King of Eng
land for protection, since at that moment
the King was certain that Germany
would respect Belgian neutrality.
1T Is false that the King of the Bel
gians proposed to form O group OF neu-
trail States In central Europe"