THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR REBUKED
(Press Assn. —Reed. 11.5 p.m.)
LONDON, Sept. 16
The Official Press Bureau states that Sir E. Grey (Foreign Minister) replying to the German Chancellor's assertion that England would not have interfered to protect the Belgians' freedom against France, said; "The German Chancellor entirely ignores the fact that England took the same lines about Belgian neutrality in 1870. Prince Bismarck admitted that she was respecting treaty obligations. Britain stands in 1914 as it stood in 1879. It is Baron Bethmann yon Hollweg who refuses to meet us in 1914 as Bismarck met us in 1870." •
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Northern Advocate, 17 September 1914, Page 5
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