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Edmund Dane. Hacking Through Belgium
Hacking Through Belgium
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE “SCRAP OF PAPER”
CHAPTER II. LIÉGE
CHAPTER III. THE MORAL AND MILITARY EFFECT
CHAPTER IV. THE BELGIAN ARMY AND ITS WORK
CHAPTER V. THE GERMAN TIDAL WAVE
CHAPTER VI. THE GERMANS IN BRUSSELS
CHAPTER VII. THE FINAL HACK
CHAPTER VIII. THE CRIME OF LOUVAIN
CHAPTER IX. THE POLITICS OF RAPINE
CHAPTER X. THE AGONY OF ANTWERP
CHRONOLOGY OF CHIEF EVENTS
FOOTNOTES
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Edmund Dane
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Doubt as to the aims of Germany had long before been cleared up in responsible quarters informed of the facts. “The cynical violation of the neutrality of Belgium,” Mr. Asquith said in his speech at the Guildhall, “was after all but a step—the first step—in a deliberate policy of what, if not the immediate, the ultimate, and the not far distant aim was to crush the independence and the autonomy of the Free States of Europe. First Belgium, then Holland and Switzerland—countries, like our own, imbued with and sustained by the spirit of liberty—were one after another to be bent to the yoke.”
It was hardly necessary for General von Bernhardi, in his book “The Next War,” to declare that the plan of the German General Staff was to march upon France through Belgium. In truth, he disclosed a secret that was as open as anything could be. The fortification by France of her eastern frontier, threatening to convert a campaign against France into a war of obstacles, at all events at the outset, defeated what has already been alluded to as the corner-stone of German strategy. A war of obstacles would not only allow France to gather her strength and to dispose of it where it would be most effective, but it would enable her to meet in the field a foe already shaken by the effort, and by the inevitably heavy losses incurred in breaking the barrier. In a word, the odds in such a campaign would be so much against the invader that for Germany an attack made upon those lines was as good as hopeless.
