r
country--England would have landed her troops in Belgium under all
circumstances (en tout etat de cause).

"As for the place of landing, the Military Attache did not make a
precise statement; he said that the coast was rather long, but the
General knows that Mr. Bridges, during Easter, has paid daily visits
to Zeebrugge from Ostend.

"The General added that we were, besides, perfectly able to prevent
the Germans from passing through."

DOCUMENT NO. 3

Report of Baron Greindl, Belgian Minister in Berlin, to the Belgian
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[On the 23d of December, 1911, Baron Greindl, then and for many years
Belgian Minister in Berlin, made a report to the Belgian Minister of
Foreign Affairs. There was found in Brussels a copy of this report.
Although a copy, the official character of this third document found
in Brussels is evident from the official imprint on the paper on which
the copy stands. The first page reads:]

....... SECTION
No. ...........
..... ENCLOSURE COPY

Reply to No.
General department
Office of ........

BERLIN, Dec. 23, 1911.

Belgian Legation,
No. 3,022--1,626.

Strictly Confidential.

What is Belgium to do in case of war?

Mr. Minister:

I have had the honor to receive the dispatch of the 27th November
last, P without docket number, registration number 1,108....

[Baron Greindl's report is an extremely long one. Extracts from it
were published in The North German Gazette of Oct. 13. A facsimile has
been made of the first page only of the document, because of its great
length.

The writer reveals with great astuteness the ulterior motives
underlying the English proposal and draws attention to the danger of
the situation in which Belgium had become involved by a one-sided
partisanship in favor of the powers of the Entente. In this very
detailed report, dated Dec. 23, 1911, Baron Greindl explains that the
plan of the General Army Staff for the defense of Belgian neutrality
in a Franco-German war as communicated to him only concerned the
question as to what military measures should be adopted in case
Germany violated Belgian neutrality. The hypothesis of a French attack
on Germany through Belgium had, however, just as much probability in
itself. The diplomat then goes on in the following manner:]

"From the French side danger threatens not only in the south of
Luxemburg, it threatens us on our entire joint frontier. We are not
reduced to conjectures for thi