They are acting under the constraints of an unavoidable necessity, Belgium’s neutrality having been violated by French officers who, in disguise, crossed Belgian territory by motor-car in order to make their way into Germany. It is to my very great regret that the German troops find themselves compelled to cross the Belgian frontier. The declaration it makes is rather incredible:
The above image is an extract from a proclamation by the German General Otto von Emmich, distributed widely in Belgium in the autumn of 1914 as the German army crossed the tiny nation’s borders and began its slow march south.
Image taken from ‘Scraps of Paper: German Proclamations in Belgium and France’ (1916), available at.
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