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Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
Died. Albert I, King of the Belgians, 58; of injuries suffered in a fall while mountain climbing; near Namur, Belgium...
...archiv has officially denied that his name appears on record. And ten years later he was calling himself Frieherr von Buchwald, known as Remark, and had a coronet on his visiting card. He then compares Remarque's account of the World War to Uncle Toby on the siege of Namur...
Count Charles was attacked in the Chamber because his Minister of Interior, Vicomte Prosper Poullet, had certified the election returns from small Hastiere near Namur. "In that election," shouted an Opposition Deputy, "there were gross irregularities. Shame on Poullet! Shame...
...Belgians experienced the dread phenomenon of "poison fog." In their Royal Palace at Brussels last week King Albert and Queen Elisabeth received dreadful tidings that men, women, animals (no children), were gasping, choking, dying in a fog which filled the valley of the River Meuse from Liege down through Namur. On the fourth day the fog lifted, on the fifth Queen Elisabeth motored through the stricken valley, where 67 human lives had been lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely to the cold fog," thus scotching rumors that War gases buried...