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seizing at Brussels , and which furnish proof of a cooperation on thepart of Belgian and English military authorities coinciding withthe cooperation of French and English General Staffs and Admi-ralties on the basis of the Franco-British Entente. If, with regardto the Anglo-Belgian military understanding, the excuse is put forththat the agreements only referred to the eventuality of a violationof Belgian neutrality through Germany , and in themselves carriedno obligation for the policy of both Governments, this amountsto no more than a similar statement of English statesmen in Par-liament and in public for years past with regard to the characterof the Franco-British Entente. In the case of Belgium , however,the relations are defined with quite particular clearness. There isamong the seized documents a note by the hand of Count vonder Straaten, Director in the Belgian Foreign Office, concerninga conversation between Lieutenant-Colonel Bridges, English MilitaryAttaché at Brussels, and General Jungbluth, Chief of the Belgian General Staff, on April 23 rd , 1912. In the course of this con-versation Lieutenant-Colonel Bridges declared, according to Countvon der Straaten's memorandum:

"The English Government would have immediately"effected a landing in Belgium during the last events"(Morocco crisis) even if Belgium had not de-manded it."

"The General interposed", the memorandum goeson to say, "that Belgian assent would be necessary."

"The Military Attaché replied that he was aware of that;"but as Belgium was not in a position to prevent the Ger-"mans from passing through Belgium , England would"have landed her troops in Belgium in any case."There is no indication in the memorandum of Count vonder Straaten that Belgium has raised any sort of objection ormade any reserves regarding this declaration.

It follows that England was fully determined in 1912 to throwover board the inviolability of Belgian neutrality for whose sakeshe professes to have now gone to war. Belgium herself hadhopelessly compromised her neutrality by her military agreementswith England. If England, in the face of these indisputable facts,