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Hidden Belgian Documents Show Allied Plans 1908 100000 Troops
Facsimiles from the Belgian general staff recount confidential talks with the British and French about war plans to land 100000 troops in Belgium via Dunkirk Calais Boulogne and Antwerp and to move them by Belgian railways. The Belgian minister protested neutrality while Belgium debated cooperation with Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ODAY
Bruxelles
Belgium
Edward Grey
Mediterranean
Feet
Ein
Howard Grey
John Burns
Lord Morley
Trevelyan
Labor Party
Ramses McDonald
Arthur Ponson
France
Dunkrk
Calais
Boulogne
Barnardiston
Scheldt
Bridges
Jungbluth
England
Sir Edward Grey
Germany
Prince Lichnowsky
St. Petersburg
Brussels
Liege
Dunkirk
Baron Greind
Leopold of
Congo
Gladstone
Interna
Antwerp
Namur
French Ardennes
Cald
Grierson
Cherbourg
Brussels-Louvain
Namur-Dinant