@ath of Loyalty Taken to Strive for Unity of All Classes and to Further Colonial Development Brussels, Feb, 23.
contrast to yesterday's mournful tolling, the bells of Brussels ang out joyously this morning when the new King Leopold III, entered the city to take the Oath of Loyalty to the Constitution.
Escorted by troops and accompanied by Princess Astrid, King Leopold proceeded from Laeken to the Parliament building.
Enthusiastic cries of "Vive lo Roi" by his subjects who lined the route, followed him.
In Parliament, before the assembled members of both Houses and in the presence of visiting Royalties and other distinguished personages, King Leopold I] swore to observe the Constitution, {he laws of the Belgian people, and to maintain the national in: dependence and integrity of Belgian soil.
The new King of the Belgians took the Oath in both the French and Plemish languages. was carried to the royal vault at Lacken, and placed in its last resting place amid a salvo of 21 guns.—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.