NOT TO BE TRUSTED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1914, Page 7

NOT TO BE TRUSTED

GERMANY RESOLVED TO CRUSH FRANCE. BRITAIN KNOWS ITS DUTY. LONDON, 3rd August. The limes, in a leader, says: "After the/ example of what Germany has done in Luxembourg and on France's border, we cannot longer rely upon the prpsence of her Ambassador in London as security against some sudden surprise. It is trite we have no controversy with her, and have been willing and anxious to develop those better relations, which had lately sprung up. We were eager to work with, her for mediation and peace 5 .but now she has shown, her hand —she is resolved to crdsh France, and trample upon the rights 61 those who happen, to stand in her way. Yestefday it yvas Luxembourg ; to-day it may be Belgium or Holland, or she may treat us as she has treated our French friends, and assail us without a war declaration ; but she will find the Empire .ready. The eyes of the nation are concentrated upon the German attack on France and Luxembourg. The nation knows its duty, and, with the blessing of Heaven, will do it to the uttermost." The Times adds that "the war is a grim satire on the professions of peace, which are yet fresh upon the hps of those who have plunged the Continent into its miseries and calamities. Ihe , blame falls mainly on Germany. She could have stayed the plague had she chose to speak to Vienna, as she speaks when in earnest. She made demands on St. Petersburg and Paris which no Government could entertain. The invasion of Luxembourg shows how Germany keeps her word. We will not tolerate a German hegemony in Europe We Are ready to fight such a calamity. If any individual member of Cabinet dissents from this view, the sooner he quits the Government the better. The few hours of this unprecedented crisis have sufficed to show the foe that the democracies of the British Empire stand fitm and United," A REPORT THAT IS NOT y CREDITED. LONDON, 3rd August. The Daily Chfdmcle (Liberal) reports that the British Cabinet has decided' not to participate in France's campaign against Germany., TJie report, however,