AID FOR BELGIUM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 25 November 1914, Page 3

AID FOR BELGIUM.

BRITAIN'S (PLANS MADE EIGHT; JTEABS AGO. ■According to wireless messages received' in the United States on October -12; the German general headquarters' has given the following report:— 'German military authorities, searching tho archives of the Belgian general staff at Brussels, discovered a portfolio, inscribed, 'English intervention in Bel-, gium,' which contains somo important documents.

"One of these is a report to the Belgium Minister for War, dated April 10th, 1906, which gives the result of' detailed negotiations between the chief of the Belgian general staff and' the British military attache at Brussels. Lieuten-ant-Colonel Bcrnardiston.

"This plan is of English origin and wa s sanctioned by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James M. Grierson, chief' of the British general staff. "It sets forth the strength and forma-, tion and designates landing places for an expeditionary force of 100,000 men. Continuing, it giveß the details of a I plan for the Belgian general staff to transport food and' find quarters fortheii" men in Belgium, and provides for Belgian interpreters. The landing places designated are Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne. f "Lieutenant-Colonel Bernardiston is quoted as having remarked that Holland for the present could not relied on, Another confidential communication declares that the British Government, after the destruction of the German navy, would send supplies and provisions by way of Antwerp. There is also the suggestion from the British military attache that a Belgian system of espionage should be organised in the Prussian Khincland. "A second document is a map showing the strategical positions of the French army and demonstrating the existence of a Franco-Belgian agreement; and a third is a report from Baron Greindl, the Belgian Minister at Berlin, to the Belgian Foreign Office, dated December 23, ; Mil.'