[12] [French _tour de valse_, German _Walzertour_—_i.e._, a step taken without regard to the consequences, a light-hearted escapade. We may, perhaps, trace here a flavour of Teutonic contempt for Southern airs and graces.—_Translator’s Note._] [13] Dispatch from M. Cambon, dated 5th November, Yellow Book for 1911. [14] See especially reports 141 and 161 from Sir Maurice de Bunsen to Sir Edward Grey (_Great Britain and the European Crisis_). [15] Belgian Grey Book, annexe to No. 2. [16] Yellow Book, No. 120. [17] See M. Waxweiler’s _La Belgique neutre et loyale_ (Lausanne: Payot et Cie.), and the pamphlet by M. van den Heuvel, Minister of State, _De la violation de la neutralité belge_ (Paris: Louis de Soye). [18] Statement made by the Chancellor on 6th November 1914 to the representatives of the great American agencies, United Press and Amalgamated Press. [19] [It would have been a pity to drop this happy metaphor, although it is not used, so far as I am aware, by English military writers. A curtain, in fortification, is a plain wall connecting two bastions.—_Translator’s Note._] THE END. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. End of Project Gutenberg's Germany before the war, by Eugène-Napoléon Beyens