WHERE WERE OUR BRAINS?

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 3

WHERE WERE OUR BRAINS?

"Mr Hilaire Belloc roundly declares that there is a mass of evidence, chiefly connected with the manufacture and storage of munitions by Germany, which proves conclusively that the German Government dedded in 1911 to bring on a Avar against Fiance and Russia as soon as the harvest of 1914 was gathered. The decision was carried out with exact punctuality. If Mr Belloc's statement is correct, and if Germany was laying down enormous stocks of reserve munitions from 1911 onwards, what were the Intelligence Departments of Great Britain, France, and Russia doing that they failed to detect such an ominious presage of inevitable war?"— Sydney Daily Telegraph.