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"There is a liberal newspaper published at Brussels, the capital of Belgium, which is often quoted as political authority in the United States, called the Indépendance Belge. What does the term mean?" "'The Belgian Independent, or 'The Independent Belgian," laughed Pelham. "But the first word is a noun." "'The Belgian Freeman, or something of that sort."
"Moi, je suis fiere d'etre Belge!" said the girl, and as she spoke you could see the color slowly burning through her pale face and neck she was proud to be a Belgian they hoped, that one could keep, and there would come a day, we could be sure of that "un jour de revanche!"
My reply was no doubt disappointing to the soldier, who thought he had really captured a spy this time, and earned his two weeks' leave the reward for arresting a spy. On March 29, before leaving the area, I acted as guide to some Canadian troops, from Café Belge to the Canal Dugouts. They seemed to be fine fellows and well up to strength in all their companies.
The Presse especially annoyed him by copying from the Independance Belge a story of his having been surprised by the Belgian police dining in an hotel with an Italian forger, whose grand behaviour and abundance of false bank-notes had completely captivated him.
Of course this possibility cannot be denied, at least in any single instance, but it seems too sweeping an assertion to make for the whole range of observed forms. The alternative theory is that of van Mons, the Belgian originator of commercial varieties of apples, who has published his experiments in a large work called "Arbres fruitiers ou Pomonomie belge."
In the Congo there began in 1911 an industry that will have an important bearing on the economic development of the Colony. It was the installation of the first plant of the Huileries du Congo Belge. This Company, which is an offshoot of the many Lever enterprises of England, resulted from the growing need of palm oil as a substitute for animal fat in soap-making.
Sd. opposit a Clift of rocks abt 200 foot N 31° W. 4 ms 1/2 to a pt. on L. Side passed Saline Creek on the L. Side a large Salt Lick & Spring 9 me. up the Creek, one bushel of water will make 7 lb. of good Salt on this Creek, So great a no of Salt Springs are on it that the water is brackish N 51° W to a Belge of an Isd on the S. Sd. at 3 ms. Capt.
My platoon and Allen's platoon were in a trench on the right of the Vlamertinghe-Ypres road, across the field stretching from the road to the railway. Dickinson was in command of B Company. We had our Headquarters in a little wooden dug-out in the centre of the field behind the trench. Battalion Headquarters were at the Café Belge a house on the right of the road close by.
When he slept, it was only to dream of the great statesman and revolutionary leader of the Low Countries, in the act of taking him by the hand or of presenting him to his majesty Leopold, "Roi de Belge." He prepared himself with great care, in his reflections, for the stupendous occasion. He studied up courtly bows, and imagined just how he would look when in the act of making one of them.
"It looks," thought Vivie, after glancing at the Indépendance Belge, "As though Belgium were going to be extremely interesting during the next few weeks; I may be privileged to witness from a safe distance another Waterloo."
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