Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...
Last week Belgian soldiers finally succeeded in stopping the gaps in the dykes. An estimated loss of 1,000,000,000 francs worth of livestock and crops was reported...
...Belgians were privileged, last week, to behold Her Majesty attired in a long pair of "harem trousers" reaching down to her shoes and fastened spatwise under the insteps. The Queen had worn the garment on the dustier stages of Their Majesties' recent tour of the Belgian Congo. "They are practical, ces pantalons colonials," smiled Her Majesty, "and many Belgian women in our Congo find them indispensable centre les insectes...
Queen Elizabeth, who have just toured the Belgian Congo (TIME...