The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-10
International Relations Re viewed in Recent Diplo- matic Reports Published From Berlin
ENGLISH DIPLOMACY
 HELD RESPONSIBLE
 FOR EUROPEAN WAR
Italian Treachery Scorned
 and English Yellow Press Did Much to Bring About War, Claim Newspapers

~ Berlin, August e-(5y Wireless.) q The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeituns continues. says the Overseas News agency, to publish documents purport- ina to be secret Belgian diplomatic re- 4 ports found in Brussels by the Ger lhans. The present instaIIment large y comprises comment attributed to & various Belgian ministers regarding X alleged political conditions in England, France and Italy during the years 1908 and 1909 so far as the international relations of those countries were af- M Sected.
 N The summary of the document con M tinues:
 N Baron Leghait, Belgian ambassador E at Paris, is quoted as having on Jan uary 30, 1908, asked whether French E slngoes understand whether the new M grouping of powers is the result of d |4 vast programme which was wonder N fully schemed in London and in the |G execution of which Delcasse tthe M French, foreign minister, is more tool K than imitator.
 The ambassador at Berlin no more |E refers to Germanys peaceful attitude, N saving on February ?, 1908, 'nobc iy |N ever had in Berlin the absurd and inn |y possible idea of aggression against |& England, but everybody fears English aggression
 M "The same ambassador states on June N E. 1903. that France has returned 10 VI Delcasses policy but shrouded it in a mantle of hypocrisy
 .N The ambassador of France to Der 4 lin whose reports on German affairs N have been published in a French vel |E low book, was characterized on May S 13, 1908. by his Belgian colleague thus:
 "'He is distrusting and suspicious, |f smells everywhere after thought and is badly informed. are all diplomatists who make use of spies The same am bassador on May 30. 1908, arraiened tho members of the triple entente as follows: Russia and England who both, although with different results. only Tor the same aggrandizement yea, with out plausible pretext, conducted wars of conquest in Manchura and the Trans k vaal. or France, who just now begins tho conquest of Morocco disregarding Ii solemn promises and without other legal title than the transfer of Eng N fish rights which England did not pos ssss,' was the ambassadors quoted characterization.
 Thirty Years Peace
 "The same letter says further: The triple alliance guaranteed 80 years of peace to the world because it was con ducted by Germany, who was satisfied with the political situation in Europe The new grouping menaces peace be- s cause 1t consists of powers that desire q revision of the status quo.'
 "The ambassador of Belgium at Der lin on July IS. 190S declares that the 4 British ambassador in Berlin, Sir Frank I.ascelles, was recalled because he tried to eliminate the Misunderstanding be- tween the two countries which he con sidered as stupid and highly obnoxious for both, but his zeal did not core spond to the political ideas of his sov- erign.'
 The Belgian ambassador at Paris on October s, 1908, declared that Russia wanted to tear to pieces the Berlin treaty.
 The Belgian ambassador at Berlin, who was anti-German, characterized on February 13. 1903. the political roll of the King of England as follows: "The King of England gives assurance that peace is the aim of all his endeavors. This he has said always since the begin ming of his successful diplomatic cam paign. The leading intention of this campaign is to isolate Germany, but every one Is aware that the peace of SpriOls Y threatened than since the King of Eng land tried to secure it.
 -ss~his same ambassador OF March 31. as09 characterized the state of public opinion in England The state of mind which prevails in England reminds one of that in France from 1866 to 1870. France then believed it was her privilege to hinder Germany in the reconstruction of her unity for the reason she con sidered this as menace to the con- tinental hegemony which France had en- 5oyed until that time In the ane man ner England today regards it as an un- friendly act and a menace to peace of Germany refuses to enter, by contract, into an obligation to depend upon the msrcy of England.'
 Says Italy Treacherous
 ''The Belgian ambassador at Berlin. on April IT. 1909. thus characterized the treac chery of Italy; For a long time past no one in either Berlin or Vienna has indulged in illusions as to the prob able assistance of Italy The Itanan government is entering into engagements concerning its course toward France ana England and at the same time is enter lng uninterruptedly with London and Paris. Italy nevertheless. clings to the triple alliance and is using this as a Guarantee for the fidelity of her new friends. who inspire her with limited con- fidence only. Italy reserves the right to nf fdo xx,tth gar 1ar ri Inc at Algeciras, where she assisted France and England, and, as she did more re- gently in the oriental problem where she finally joined Germany and Austria Hungary after having played an uncer-
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