Chapter 335: Chapter 291: The Leap of the Leopard and the Italic War_2

France's repeated refusals have also angered the German people. Both sides believe the other party is at fault, and ev protests and initiatives demanding the governmt declare war have be dless among the public.

On March 7, the German main army moved towards the Frch border, and the situation seemed to have an implicit inttion of waging war.

The Frch were not willing to lag, and merely one day after receiving the news, afternoon of March 8, the Frch main army likewise set off, heading to the border area adjact to Germany.

Due to the German army's strgth, the Frch directly announced mobilization in parts of the border area to guard against possible unprovoked warfare by the Germans.

Both parties' actions directly prompted continuous conflicts along the German-Frch border, seemingly prompting millions of troops to struggle for survival at the behest of the upper echelons.

After France announced its military mobilization, Germany also declared military mobilization, and William II directly ordered the German Geral Staff to issue battle plans to all armies.

Now, the oil drum had be directly ignited.

Originally, the British wanted to watch the German-Frch struggle, let the German-Frch relations become ev worse, and directly eliminated the possibility of a German-Frch alliance.

But the British did not think of waging war against Germany at this time, for before the frequt launches of the super dreadnoughts, the number of German dreadnoughts was not much differt from that of Britain, and the advantage of the navy was not significant.

It goes without saying that the German army is considered the best in the world, and solely relying on the power of the Frch is not ough to resist the German army.

At this time, the British governmt had no idea that Germany's goal was only to blackmail France's Congo colony and still thought that the Germans were really angry and wanted to gage in a real war with France.

More importantly, if war comes, the Germans occupying Agadir and establishing a naval base on the Atlantic coast would seriously threat Britain's waterway from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope, so the British strongly opposed Germany's occupation of the Moroccan port.

On March , 9, Britain formally interved, warning the German Ambassador to Britain: "This matter (the Second Moroccan Crisis) affects the interests of the British more deeply than any other evt, and the British Empire will resolutely refuse to recognize and oppose any solution without the participation of the British people."

The intervtion of the British did not make the Germans pay atttion, and the German governmt insisted on negotiating the crisis with France alone.

But the Germans did not expect that the British attitude in this crisis would be so firm that it would directly push the British-German relationship into the abyss.

This also led Italy to believe that it had an opportunity to achieve its ambition to annex Tripoli.

At the d of March, the Italian newspaper Heartfelt God Society suddly began to aggressively attack the Turkish governmt for its mistreatmt and coercion of Italian immigrants in Tripoli.

Under the intse propaganda campaign of the major Italian newspapers, the Turkish governmt had be portrayed as a devil doing all sorts of evil, and the Italian immigrants in Tripoli were in urgt need of rescue by the Italian governmt.

Feeling almost ready, in April 9, the Italian governmt officially notified the Turkish governmt and issued a final notice. The Italian governmt claimed that Turkish rule had plunged Tripoli into chaos and poverty, Italian terprises in Tripoli faced hostility from Turkey, and the lives of Italian immigrants were threated.

As a result, being forced to care for and protect its own dignity and interests, Italy decided to carry out a military occupation of Tripoli and Xilani and demanded that the Turkish army provide assistance and take measures to guard against any possible resistance actions against the Italian army.

The outrageousness and absurdity of this treaty were rare ev in history.

Naturally, the Turkish governmt flatly rejected Italy's ultimatum and angrily called the Italian governmt greedy, shameless, and absurd clowns.

On April 7th, Italy officially declared war on Turkey.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was already in a state of decay at this time, and facing the aggression of the Italian powers, the Turkish governmt called on the major powers of Europe to interve.

However, long before this, the Italian governmt had gone through several decades of diplomatic efforts, successively signing the rewal of the Triple Alliance, the Italo-Frch Agreemt, and the Italo-Russian La Kuan Jie Agreemt, allowing Germany, France, Russia, and other European powers to recognize Tripoli as an area of Italian influce.

Since there were prior agreemts, the European powers could not condemn Italy for its bullying behavior and had to pretd not to see it. Some powers ev advised the Turkish governmt to accept Italy's unreasonable demands to avoid a sinful war that should not have occurred in the first place.

In fact, the real reason that the European powers were unwilling to help Turkey was that the Ottoman Turkish Empire was now in a close relationship with Germany.

Moreover, in the d, Italy and Turkey were actually on the same side, both being part of the allied camp. With both Allies fighting each other, the Entte powers were more than happy to watch the drama unfold. Thus, how could they possibly interve?

On the German side, having just suffered a diplomatic defeat in France, the German governmt had lost face.

Furthermore, both Italy and Turkey were Germany's allies, and favoring either side would damage the relationship with the other.

The German governmt could only express its inability to help, and except for providing some funds to the Turkish governmt, there were no further actions tak in diplomacy.