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BELGIAN JOURNALISTS.

FAREWELL DINNER

As chairman of the Overseas Cranmoitter

Lord Burnham, in proposing the toast of The Belgian Press," said that bis colleagues of the Belgian Press were about to return to their own long suffer

uf the institute of Journalists. Lording and heroic country. That mean the

Burbiam gave a dinner at the Savoy Hotel on January 11th, in London, in honor of members of the Belgian Press leaving England too resume their journa listic duties in their own country Dur- ing the German occupation of their land, Belginti journalists produced newspapers in England and Holland which did bruch to maintain the faith of their compat rints in the ultimat, triumph of the cause of freedom.

Afer the coasts of The King and The King of the Belgians had been honoured, Mi, Herbert Samine), presid- ent of the Anglo-Belgian Union, proposed "Belgaum. He thanked Lord Burnham for giving their the opportunity of ex- pressing once more the profound sym pathy felt by the people of this country for their Belgu Friends. (Cheers.) When Germany threw down her challenge it was a challenge to the human soul. It was a les whether mankind was willing to make sacrifices for great ideals, whe ther the peoply of the world would risk all for the sake of the principles of liberty and of international justice. It was Belgian who first took up that chai.

and

the cause of It was lenge (cheers) Belgium more than any other thing that detertained Great Britain in the couran of policy it adopted. Speaking as one who was a member of the British Cabinet ut that time, he could say that it was the invasion of Belgium that, more than anything else, ensured harmonious and unanimous nation in entering that great conflict. (theers.) As President of the Local Government Board at that time he had the privilege of assisting the res fugees who came from Belgiam, and who numbered 250,000. It had been the fate tion of the Belgian Press in England during all these years to maintain the ural of the Belgian people, to pre- serve the spirit of patriotism amongst them, and, so far as might be, to main- tain their cheerfuluess

It was in

restoration of what Gladstone once de- scribed as public right in Europe, of which Belgium was at once the evidence and the guarantee. Greaga had been Bite common losses and surrows of the 4421 no country had berti vietimised as much as Belgium. (Hea, hear.) The vocabulary of crime and suffering had beng torn to tatter to find new feries 10 describe the fate of those countries which had been to use the military phrase, with in the zone of military operations," but no words fitted the case of Belgium |

well as they of brutal and barbarous victimisation. Nu other nowSpader Press, no other set of able editurs and journalists had boca su vietinised. They had stood their long and torturing trial with unstained honour and unfailing fortitude. The German Government tried | every gas within their power 10 H8 and to seduce them, and, with the oxoep- tion of a handful of wretched creatures who were now being gibbeted in Belgium, they shook their Bists in the face of the oppressor (Chears.) Mr. Brand Whit

lock, in his vivid story of German rule in Belgium, had told us how the Bar of Belgium vindicated its bonour and its tranition, and they know the Press did no less and no mare Belgian Pressmen, in their ravished homes or in exile in Great Britain and in France, had had little to live upon but the bread and the dreamt water of afliction, but they never of bowing the knee to Baal. Those who stayed in Belgium had had their pens wrenched from their hands, or had only boen able to use them in secret work age against the tyranny of the invader, and unfailing efforts to maintain the spirit of the nation. Those who came to Great Britain had produced and published editions of their best papers in a way most creditable to their ability and, pat- riotism, and of infinite solace to their follow-country roun. They

bad all felt the tragedy of the heart; Belgium had felt the tragedy of the soul. The worst at last was over, because the Germans were no longer in Belgium to mock and re juice at the result of their infamy; but the suffering was not you over,

and

could not be over. Belgium had been robbed of the means of livelihood in nearly every industry. Ho was told that in such a staple manufacture as that of cotton only the obsolete machinery had been left lays, standing, and all the rest was sent away

in

the

Now at last the people of Belgium were returning to their own country. They were returning to face very arduous and dihealt economic conditions, but they saw at Inst near at hand the full res toration of Belgium-an even greater Belgium than before the war, a Belgium ennobled and sanctified by her sucrifices, a Belgium, let them hope, unified more even than she had been in bygone days, a Belgium which they hoped would, by to German mills, from which, he hoped, the Fence Conference, be endowed with it might still be brought back, andoubted. an even more complete independence thanly the worse for wear. It was the same existed before the war, and a Belging with printing. It was not only the ma resting, like all other countries, on the chinery that had been aither stolen or sanction of international law, guarantee destroyed; the man-power had been did and upheld by all the great nations of abled by the disuse of skill and the de

Nationa aks. League the world.

one bility of enforced idleness. In spite of that hopes of all mankind would centre all, he believed that the inherited enter- for the avoidance of another conflict. I prise and industriousness of might be long before Belgion relations Belgian

were people

such that were restored on a footing of friendship they would triumph Over thede with Germany it could hardly be excruel hardships in their economic life, pected that the events of the last few just as they did by their valour of eare would soon be forgotten, or, in endurance in the field of battle. (Cheers!) deed, could ever be forgiven; but let them in the forums, in the market-place, in the hope that Belgium would be able, as the temple, the shibboleth of the day was outcome of the settlemen of the Peace reconstruction, but here, although we had Conference, to live on terms not merely our time of trial and trouble before ut. of goodwill but of friendship with all we used it only in changing metaphot. her other neighbours. (Cheers.) Parti.

In Belgium, where a wide margin of her oularly they would hope that the happy frontier was ons long scene of devasta relations between Britain and Belgium tion and often of desolation, the word might enduro after the war was over, reconstruction was grin reality As first president of the Anglo-Belgian an uwful fact. Just as it was the Union, under the patronage of the two common duty of the Allies to defend the Sovereigns, he hoped that the union independence of Belgium, so it was their would help to keep up contact between the common duty to leave nothing undotte peoples of the two countries.

The union to restore Belgium to the status of in- proposed to encourage lectures un sub-dustrial freedom and commercial capa

cets of common interest by Englishmen city We had seen what good workers in Belgium and by Belgians in the the Belgians had proved themselves hore United Kingdom. It was hoped also to

in every branch of industry that they

have an interchange of students between had entered, and what valuable help

universities of the two countries, producing

and also to disseminate information of masses of munitions which had in a mate interest through the agency of the news rial sense won the war. We could de papers of but countries. At this mo

mopend upon Belgium to regain her old ment the union was specially concerned pride of place, given only a fair and to promote a memorial to the sailors of equal chance. She had even now a rank.

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the Vindictive and the British Fleetling sense of the injustice done her in BALF A CENTURY REPUTATION.

generally, which took part in the historie 1839 by the Great Powers, which ought DR, LE CLERC'S VEYS

of

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attack at Zeebrugge. At the suggestion now to be reconsidered, and, as for LA

the Deputy for Bruges, and under the possible, redressed. The Press would be Invaluable for diseases of there Important orgazas, auspices of a committee of Englishmen as much as ever in the forefront of the Gravel. Feins

Bottle. lending and inspiriear, hear.) Loxos, Entel- KI

the Back, Gout, Rheumatis, &c and Belgians, it was proposed to enise

all ranks Price 38., tending Chorists, or post free. DB. LE fund sufficient for all time of the men of the armies of industry.

CLABO DIED Co., HAVERSTOOR ROAR NW., who fought in that remarkable action. We had, in Great Britain, in our local CAPTIONE; New York, 90, BETHMAN STREET, Depote Paris, 12, Ruz (Chcers.)

M. Cummerts, in reply, said he had Committee It controlled the town police. Sydney and Brisbane; NEW ZEALAND DRUG Co

government, a body called the "Watch Toroute, LYMANS, Ln, Autralia, ELLIOT Bace.,. listened with great pleasure to the In the future, if the world was not to. L, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Welling speech of Mr. Berbert Samuel, but what relapes into primeval anarchy, the nowaton: India, B, K. PAUL, & Co., Aulentia. aver the possibilities of the future might paper Press had to constitute itself the be, for the present Belgiane were more

"Watch Committee of civilisation, concerned with feelings of friendabiy otherwise the moral force of the world with the British, French, and all the would be lost in the babel of tongues other Allies. They were keen to consoli and the inevitable clash of national date the bonds that bound Belgium to her rivalries on an even extended scale. There splendid Allica (Cheers.) That de fore, let our allinneo be combined, our manded all their effort at the present best friends made good, our best means moment, and they had no mood for any stretched out." The Penoo Conference thing else. He had u splendid example could

the newspaper of that friendship on the occasion of the dot last for over:

will always be with us, and entry of the King into Brussels, when his would, he was sure, play its part bettor Majesty rode at the head of his troops or mure honourably than the Belgian Contingents of the Allies followed. First Press, the representatives of which he enue Americana, and the people aid, hailed there that night as friends sail

These are the men who have fed us.

colleagues, to whose future he wished Then came the French, and people said. all that was good hope and good rẻ- "These are the men who have fought for

wo and have housed our refugees.

Lator

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FOR

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поле

LOSS!

MEMORY

DEBILITY

(Cheerenn-Savino, in reply.

M. E.

came a band of 100 pipers. The effect was old he wished most sincerely to thank and people said, "Those mon tlie Overseas Committee of the Institute

did aot

tremo only relieve n2%, house our re- of Journalists for the sympathy they had fugees, and fight for us; but they sanie manifested. The hospitality that they into the wach. In Belgium to-day there residence in England would never be war lor That impressed lind been shown to them during their

kim

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was a knowledge of the siroumstances in which Great Britain entered into the

war. (Cheers.) But while Grout Britain Lomonneir independence

lind

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free the NERVES,

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and M. J. Claes (La Métropold) u orga immense service to Bel-nisa replied. “

HAPOTEAUTS LIT LCLYCHRATE OF AINE steegees ask men med servi

gium, he thought Belgium had rendered Chevalier Maskens (ire Becretary of Home service to Great Britain in helping the Belgian Legation), in the absence of tho

English

people to realise the real the Belldan Minister, expressed to Eorite clear women sad mirossa kiimani in taming spirit of the chemy and the danger de Burnhage in the name of his compatriote England Ads her Empire owing to who well prosent, their due import German setión.. (Hoar, hear,}

thanks. (Chaëra.)

APVOCAT, ne'mart, Alu ja Arine.