... considered and scathing rejoinder. The occasion was significant and appropriate —a demonstration in honour of Belgium's Independence Day. Belgium furnishes at once the best answer to renewed German pretensions about the origin of the War. and the best test ...

... blown to pieces by shell, with which, spite of the most stringent orders, be was tampering. February 23.—This being the Independence Day of the Orange Fpe State, we expected the enemy to make demonstration. This, however. they failed to do. A heavy, soaking ...