The Audacious War

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ese are our guests and we will care for them." Nearly 30,000 Belgian troops have also been interned in Holland. It was expected that they might leak out, but the Dutch are stern in their present position of neutrality. They understand their very existence depends upon it. Some of the interned warrior

spitals, and 80,000 refugees are being there cared for largely by private enterprise. The losses by the war are difficult

rated. Beyond war there is only one power that can move the Be

s to-day only two Belgian settlements, one of about 1000 people in Montana and one of about 1500 in western New York. The Belgian loves his land and sits by his home though it be in ruins. The history of the land of the Belgians shows th

from Belgian people) has been raised to feed starvin

ntry. It was held to be the duty of the invading Germans to feed the population of the conquered count

to-day without food, or raw materials for her industries, and probably without outlet had her industries the ability to produce. Although about fifty ships are bringing food to Belgium, they are of small capacity and in the aggregate represent less than one month's supply. In the early part

Germans, refuse to co?perate with them and will not resume their work for the Germans to appropriate the results. The people of Antwerp were invited to come back from Holland and it was proclaimed tha

e of Brabant, which includes Louvain as well as Brussels. The inhabitants said it was impossible and the d

0,000,000 francs, and Germany demanded that this reserve be transferred from England to a neutral country; but, of course, England re

confiscate the stores and sell them to Germans who will do business. The people of Antwerp must be in bed by 9 o'clock. The people of Liége are

watches and clocks. The Belgian railroad system is different from that of the Germans,-left-handed tracks and a different system of s

ld for right of passage through the country. The German hate is reserved entirely for the English above all people on

Germany," is Kipling's poem in the King Albert book issued Dec

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0 and a war footing of 147,000. The leader of the Catholic party opposed the programme, declaring that Belgian neutrality was gua

sprang to arms, and that 260,000 was the maximum Belgian army that attempted to withstand the millions of Germany's armed forces. Even these were not effectively placed. The 30,000 men at the frontier were not sufficient to permit of any effective sorties to protect the approaches to the Liége forti

00. After every able-bodied man in Belgium was demanded by King Albert, the ranks of the Belgians began to swell, and, w

money-supply. The Germans still strive, not so much against the Allies as against the English in Belgium. Here the figh

nd other places, and are digging themselves into the ground doggedly and determinedly, and with as great precision and more science than t

he Germans could not at first find the exact location of the central defense. Finally a German approached bearing a large white flag of truce. Belgian orders were given to receive him. The German, under his flag

rmany to do duty in Belgium, while the younger troops are sent b

ugh Belgium, representing both commercia

o longer neutral. What I saw in Belgium of the wanton destruction of villages, towns, and cities has prejudiced me as no argument could have done. The Allies' losses will begi

attacking parties. If the Allies become the attacking parties they will have to sustain the heavy losses. But I cannot see it otherwise th

defend, 300 east and 300 west, and her losses have been enormous. At Liége 7000 Germans went down

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Belgians are unreconciled, and if they ever get weapons in their hands-well, I will not predict, I will just tell you one fact: I traveled the len