Brussels, May 12.
"Belgium, confident in the Allies, will do her duty without unflinching," the Foreign Minister, M. Paul-Henry Spaak, declared this evening in a "The King and the Belgian Government did their best to keep the country out of war. Yet for the Jsecond tine in 25 years, Belgium has become the prey of aggression even more hideous than that of 1914," MI. 'Spaak said. "The trial is hard. For three days our valiant troops' have Joeen withstanding the sudden German asguult, which has caused the death of several hundreds of civilians. Belgium ends, but does net break, remember ing 1914-1018."—Havas,
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