Among the papers littering Hitler's
Chancellery,which had been ransacked by the Red Army,was one in
English with the British Government's crest on it,which caught
Bullock's attention. World War One Allied Ultimatum Goes Up For Auction
The original copy of Britain's World War One ultimatum to Germany,found in the ruins of Hitler's Berlin headquarters in 1945 by a Leeds soldier,is to be auctioned in Wiltshire next month.
The warning,delivered by Sir Edward Goschen,Britain's ambassador to Berlin,was discovered by a British Marine Neville Bullock,from Leeds,who was one of the first British servicemen to enter the German capital after its capture by the Russians.
Among the papers littering Hitler's
Chancellery,which had been ransacked by the Red Army,was one in
English with the British Government's crest on it,which caught
Bullock's attention.
He realised that it was Britain's protest over the German invasion of Belgium,delivered hours before the Government in London declared war on August 4,1914.
Two days earlier,Germany had delivered its own ultimatum to the Belgians demanding that the German army be allowed to march through their territory to attack France.
It is to be auctioned in Swindon,Wilts,on November 3.
* Also up for sale on the same day is a bible the size of a 50p piece which could fetch as much as £30,000.
The tiny bible,which can fit into the palm of a hand,was discovered in a collection of dolls' houses.
It measures just 1.75 inches high by 1.25 inches across,and was written in verse by the Gloucester-born poet John Taylor in 1614.
Only two copies of the first edition of the tiny work,both
with pages missing,were known to have survived until this
complete version was brought into a Swindon,Wilts,auctioneers
recently. 
One of the two previously-known copies is at Aberdeen University while the other was sold at Christie's in New York for $22,000 (£14,000) in 1989.
A spokesman for the Swindon auctioneers said today "This copy has come from an English lady who collects dolls' houses and miniature objects and she had this Bible as one of the items in her dolls' houses."
Taylor,who styled himself as "the water poet of London",produced summaries of the Old and New Testaments in verse for the Thumb Bible,which was reprinted in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Born in 1580,Taylor served in Elizabeth the First's Navy before becoming a Thames waterman.
When it became hard to make a living on the river,he turned to poetry to boost his earnings.