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man minister to transmit the protest.
 He sent telegram of his own to Inn l perial Foreign Minister von Jagow,
 and the Grand Duchess herself sent l one to her cousin, the German em- l peror. At the same time he sent
 Major van Dyck, of the Luxembourg
 army of 150 soldiers, with a protest | to be delivered to the commander of | the invading troops. But Major van 1 Dyck had no luck. He spent all day 1 missing the advancing Prussians and l it was Lieutenant Wilhelmy, charged 1 with a similar mission, who succeed ed in registering formal protest with the commandant of the German
 troops who had taken possession of the railway station of the city of
 Luxembourg, and Lieutenant Franck,
 under like orders, who presented in person Minister Eyschen's protest to
 Major von Baerensprung, command
 ing the German corps of occupation. Compensation Guarantees. It was towards evening that Minis ter Eyschen received an answer to his
 telegram to Herr von Jagow-indeed
 he received two, one from the Ger
 man foreign minister and the other
 from the chancellor of the German
 empire. The little Grand Duchess had her reply from her imperial cou-
 sin on August eighth. All were in the same tenor. Von Jagows message
 said: The imperial government guarantees Luxembourg full compen- sation for any damage done by us. We have reliable information ac-
 ncIi to ;alo
 in march on Luxembourg" To this Minister Eyschen replied by tele- graph There Is not one single French soldier on Luxembo bourg ter ritory nor any sign whatsoever of any threatening of Luxembourg's neu- trality from the French side. On the contrary, on August first the rails of the railroad on French territory near Mont St. Martin-Longwy were torn up."
 In spite of this assurance and in 1 spite of the fact that hours since 1 German scouts had already penetrat- ed through Luxerbourg into France and knew that no French attack up- on Luxembourg had been or was be- ing planned, the troops occupying the city of Luxembourg proposed to post a proclamation, dated August 2, 1914 which had been printed in Coblenz and brought with them on their com ing to the Grand Duchy, giving as tho reason for the military occupation of that neutral state that France had al ready violated the neutrality of the Grand Duchy Minister Eyschen ob- tained copy of this document and read it to the chamber of deputies of the Grand Duchy. It's text follows:
 France Blamed.
 lowing to the failure of France to respect the neutrality of Luxembourg her warlke acts-establshed beyond [ any doubt-directed against German troops from the very territory of Lux embourg, have forced His Majesty l under the bitter compulsion of iron necessity, to order that German troops, the Eighth Army Corps of the First Line also marching into Luxem- bourg.' This document was signed | simply: "Commanding General of the VIII Army Corps.
 Minister Eyschen protested against l this proclamation with the utmost 1 vigor to the commanding officer of l the Prussian troops in ocmupation, | and it was then abandoned for one l which read: His Majesty, moved by ! unavoidable necessity and induced to l the action by the disregard of neu- trality on the part of France, has or l dered the marching of troops into i Luxembourg This second document | was signed Fluff von Tscheppe und | Weidenbacn. Commanding General | of the Prussian VII Army Corps.'
 Against this also, Minister Eyschen 1 protested and telegraphed his protest | to Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl- | veg. The reply he received was that | no hostilities were directed against | the Grand Duchy and that the local | laws of the Grand Duchy would con-
 tinue to prevail. Constrained to ac- cept this situation, Minister Eyschen | asked assurances to the same effect from the German Commander and | from the German minister. Both gave them.
 The following day, however, after this agreement had been reached-
 that Luxembourg should be free to administer her own affairs-the Ger
 man dictation began.
 The first step was to demand of | Luxembourg's minister of state, al- | ready struggling with the problem of | feeding his people. the immediate ex- | pulsion of the French minister 10 l Luxembourg from the soil of the | Grand Duchy. When the demand | was made, MT. Eyschen, pointing out | Grand Duchy, asked the German
 minister to put his request in writing | Herr von Buch did so.