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The German Request for Free Passage through Belgium

Reprinted from the World War I Document Archive, available online at http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/germpassbelg.html

Belgium's Response to the Request for Passage

Reprinted from the World War I Document Archive, available online at http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/belgsayno.html

"If this hope is disappointed, the Belgian Government are firmly resolved to repel, by all the means in their power, every attack upon their rights."

From Belgium's Respons to Request for Passage

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