GERMANY SHOULD ASK PARDON OF BELGIUM.
-..'■■■■ :ArA^j^R^^ToqUN^EL. July 22. M,a,}dniili.nTi: H^i-cden,, m h discussing m !Die Ziikunf,^ tli.eV^cenk,sfateanpnt imade by Giiamicelior vori 'Hertllng eoiicern.vng Belgium, says: — .' •., - "Gam it country be Tegna'ded/^a's" an independent State' \v»hiclx is only to be returned to tlie . owners wlven. negotiations with- twenty-two other States 'have reached a favorable conclusion? Calx a country be ; regaled ■-. as independent which be^ore^>is T^turji. must undertake' to adapt its'&ifiife StSie life to-the will, of m\s enemy Power still ruling its soil? r law Germany to i'etdiiv,/ even jb'nj^* tlebble of Belgium streets'; : Ts Bel'fium, a!s a. chajuvelilbrij. a State secretary, and an aiiibassadov i hafe.- confessed, -an-;innocent^"victim, of ■ 'Gerrna^i: self-die^fence? v Tllieny' we have! to ask its forgiveness, and not forcevipta} it.- "Tins is a question 1 of 'tiWdwenc^,'m^faljty, 'and honor of a nation," '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 9
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