Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-28
new LIGHT ON
BELGIUM CASE
Recently Found Documents Indicate
Conspiracy Between Belgium
And The Allies

number of documents have re-
Gently come TO light and are being cir
cu'ated which seem to indicate tia.
Belgium and the allied powers con.
Sidefed steps to be taken aaginst Ger
many rs early as 1912.
The first document is a report of
the chief of the Belgian general stan,
Major General Ducarmc. to the min
lister of war, reporting series of
conversations which he had had with
the military attache of the British le.
cation, Lieutenant Colonel Barnard.
iston, in Brussels. II discIoses that
rs early as January. 1906, the Belgian
government was in consultation with
The British government over steps TO
be taken by Belgium, Great Britain
and France against Germany. A plan
had been fully elaborated for the
landing of two British army corps in
French ports, 10 be transferred to
the point in Belgium necessary for
operations against the Germans.
Throughout the conversation the Brit
ish and Belgian forces were spoken of
as allied armies" The British mill.
tary attache insisted on discussing
the question of the chief command,
and he urged the establishment of
Belgian spy system in Germany.
When in the year 1912 Lieutenant
Colonel Barnardston had been sue.
ceeded BY Lieutenant Colonel Bridges
ms British military auache in Brus.
sells and the chief of the Belgian staff,
Major General Ducarme, had been sue
ceedcd by General JunEbluth as chief
Of the Belgian general staff, the con-
ycrsations proceeded between the lat.
ter two officials. That is to say, these
were not casual conversations be-
tween individuals. bur series of Of
fetal conversations between represen-
tativcs Of their respective govern
ments, in pursuance of well consid-
cred policy on the part of both gov
ernmcnts.
The above documents are given adj
diti0nal significance by a report made
by Baron Greindl, Belgian minister
in Berlin, to the Belgian minister Of
foreign affairs, from which IL appears
that this representative of the Bel
gian government in Berlin was IA.
miliar with the plans above set forth
and protested against them. asking
why like preparations had not been
mad with Germany to repel invasion
by the French and English.
Taken together these documents
seem tn show that the British govern
ment had the intention, in case of
FranCo.Gcrman war, OF sending troops
into Belgium immediately-that is, of
doing the very thing which, done by
Germany, was used by England MS a
pretcXt for declaring war on Germany.
They seem to show also that the
Belgian government took, in agree
mcnt with the English general staff.
military precautions against hypo.
thetical German invasion of Belgium.
On the other hand, the Belgian gov
crnmGnt never made the slightest at
tempt to take. in agreement with the
German government, military prccau'
tions against an Anglo-Frcnch invas-
ion Of Rciuiumi. though fully informed
that Il was the purpose of the British
government to land and dispatch
across French territory into Belgium
10000 troops without asking Belgi-
um's permission on the first outbreak
of the European war.
This seems to show that the Bel
gian government was determined from
the outset to join Gcrmany's enemies.
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