The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914. HOW GERMANY PREPARED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 10, 29 August 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914. HOW GERMANY PREPARED.

In the past, even in Britain, Germany lias had many apologists, who asserted iull belief in the pacific intentions -o blatantly expressed by the Kaiser ridden Press of Germany. But with

the enormous and ever-increasing mass el evidence which goes to prove the perfidy of the assertions made, they have surely been sadly undeceived. The mere declaration of writers, however distinguished and authoritative, can not lie held to hind a Government, a

recent writer says in reviewing the preparations made by Germany for war, but, lie adds, one particular series of acts ol the (ionium Ciovcrnmont, carried on for a number of years, has no meaning at all if it did not indicate first an intention to- attack France, and secondly, to do so liv wav of jiel-

gium. This series consisted in th building of railways and railway sta tions along the French and Height: frontiers in places where there was m

traffic to carry and at a cost whu

only excessively heavy traffic ivoui justify A Gentian Professor of Get

graphy, discussing some of those st tions, says: South of .Malmedy

small (Jerman town on tlio JJelgia; frontier) though the normal tralfic does not average in;lf a dozen smr.l trains in the twenty-four hours., thm is a heavily metalled double tract

running parallel to and within a mil; of the Helgian border. Along thetrade there is a station every three miles, and at each station there is snlticioni loop accommodation to allow hall a, dozen to a dozen long troop train" to be side-tracked, and—without block

iug the through traffic on the Hug from 5000 to 10,000 men to he detrained with all tlioir immediate impedimenta. In each ease too, the sidings are provided with high platforms and all other necessary apparatus for detraining horses, guns and waggons. Those stations are close to the ad-

mirable roads which the Belgians have; run through the Ardennes to encourage tourist traffic. The same author; goes on to remark that it was held on the French side on a system which is of real use only for defence, while the

German system was meaningless or ridiculous except for purposes of aggression. The world to-day knows that aggression was calmly planned, and but for Belgium’s noble stand,that the plans were so well laid that France would have been invaded before she was well aware that war had been declared.