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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 6

GERMANY AND A MARCH THROUGH SWITZERLAND BASLE PAPER'S DEFIANCE. Lausanne, January 14. _ The 'Secolo," of Milan, asserts that in the-event of Italy entering into the war against the Central European' Powers Germany would violate the neutrality of Switzerland, and that an attack on Lombardy by' way of tho St. Gqthard, has been already planned and pigeon-holed by the German Staff. The "Basler Nachrichten," noting the insinuation in certain German papers that if the Kaiser's army had asked for a free passage through Switzerland instead of Belgium it would not have been refused, wrote: —

"If, despite our brave army we had in such case weakly given way, as the Germans appear to suppose, solely in order to make a profitable bargain, wo should not have been worth a charge of powdef. It, should be known in Germany that all of us, German Swiss os well as French Swiss, would have acted exactly lilco the Belgians. Wo all resent the violation of Belgian neutrality as an attack on the rights of man. and Germany knows this well. "We Swiss cannot repeat too often that, even more than tho Belgians, we --SOUS