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...Belgian rebels were credited with causing 125 railway accidents during the past month...
Similar means of extracting a living from journalism were those employed by Le Matin's Publisher Maurice Bunau-Varilla (whose brother started the Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first...
...Cracow, when the German invasion of his country began, Lednicki, who was then a professor at both the Universities of Cracow and Brussels, was stranded by the German victory and occupation. But diplomatic help from a friendly Belgian government, plus the friendship of an Italian princess for Ledniciki's sister, made possible his transit to France and eventually to this country...
...lecturer was Robert Coffin, a hulking, fat-jowled Belgian swing critic known to hot jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...
...King Leopold III of the Belgians his bride of last September has borne a son, according to the London News Chronicle. The boy, reported born Dec. 30, was named Philip, Prince de Rethy. The Belgian throne will never be his by succession, for when Leopold wed the striking Marie-Lelia Baels, a commoner, last Sept. 11 he renounced such a right for any children by that marriage...