GERMANY AND BELGIUM
" PROBABLE GERMAN PLANS. (IP THEY WIN THE WAR.) NOMINAL INDEPENDENCE ONLY. , KING ALBERT TO BE REPLACED i BY GERMAN PRINCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cab?e\Association.) (Rec. Nov. 17, 11.20 a.m.) LOXDON. Nov. 16: A Berne wireless message states that despite the secrecy .of the Reichstag Conun>'!tteo there is considerable disous- ! sion of" the proceedings. Her Bethmann I Hollweg lias not committed' the Ooj vernment to a definite .policy in Belgium. He outlined a possible settlement oi Belgium which must be nominally independent, but was to fremain .a Germ.i..i dependency. King Albert must.be deposed; being an, implacable enemy lie would ibo perpetually a menace. If the ~ttelgians 'desire "a king, he must be '& German prince. Other conditions are,a perpetual offensive, and defensive Bel£o(lermam'alliance, the maintenance of the Belgian a-rany at a specified'. strettglh, permanent Gerniani oniiJlary commission, at Brussells, commercial treaty in accordance with German .dictate's, lease of two ports as German "naval lytses. Several speakers demanded ihe retention of, Belgium" .as part of the German Empire. Xone mentioned the possibility of being driven out of Belgium.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 17 November 1916, Page 5
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