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The "Agreement" of 1903.
The third inclosure is this British official communique:
14 October, 1914.
The story of an alleged Anglo-Belgian agreement of 1906
published in the German press, and based on documents said to
have been found at Brussels, is only a fresh edition of a
story which has been reproduced in various forms and denied
on several occasions. No such agreement has ever existed.
As the Germans well know, Gen. Grierson is dead and Col. (now
Gen.) Barnardiston is commanding the British forces before
Tsing-tau. In 1906 Gen. Grierson was on the General Staff at
the War Office, and Col. Barnardiston was Military Attache at
Brussels. In view of the solemn guarantee given by Great
Britain to protect the neutrality of Belgium against violation
from any side, some academic discussions may, through the
instrumentality of Col. Barnardiston, have taken place between
Gen. Grierson and the Belgian military authorities as to what
assistance the British Army might be able to afford to Belgium
should one of her neighbors violate that neutrality.
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