1 This Journal, Vol. 8, p. 855.

2 The Journal, Vol. 8, p. 880.

3 VII Moore’s International Law Digest, p. 860.

4 The pamphlet entitled Die Belgische Neutraliät, issued by Georg Stilke in Berlin in 1914, which Professor Neumeyer was good enough to send to the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, contains, in addition to the Belgian documents, an Introduction and four long extracts from the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung for October 13, 1914, November 25, 1914, December 2, 1914, and December 15, 1914.

The introduction and the extracts have been omitted to make room for the interview of the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, and the statement of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, which are printed in the text.

The translation here printed of the Belgian documents is that issued by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg in his pamphlet entitled The Case of Belgium, published in 1914.

5 The entire despatch has apparently not been published, but that portion of it made public and printed by Dr. Dernburg in his pamphlet, The Case of Belgium is here reproduced.

6 This is the speech of the Imperial Chancellor referred to by Professor Neumeyer and contained in the copy of the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten of December 3, 1914, which he was good enough to send. The passage printed is the one which Professor

7 The interview is reprinted from the New York Times Current History, Vol. 1, No. 6, pages 1120–1122. Only so much of the interview is given as refers to the violation of Belgian neutrality.

8 Reprinted from the New York Times Current History, Vol. 1, No. 6, pages 1122–1124. Only the portion of Sir Edward Grey’s statement relating to the violation of Belgian neutrality is printed above.