Paris, May 30.
The Belgian rump Parliament will convene at the Limoges city hall toges c Mike Murphy stüdy plans to raise a new army of 300,000 men and clarify King Lec-pold's legal position, it was announced today. Belgian Cabinet Ministers will arrive from Paris and Poitiers to participate in the deliberations.
There are at present 50 Senators and Deputies housed in the Limoges Rainbow Dance Hall, where they sleep on mattresses strewn on the floor. More arrivals are expected to swell the rump Parliament to at least 100 members by tomorrow.
The steering committee of the rump Parliament took the initial step toward an act at the Rainbow Dance Hall yesterday when it unanimously endorsed the Belgian Government's declaration made in the radio broadcast by M. Hubert Pierlot, the Premier, The declaration divested King Leopold of his royal powers and pledged to continued the war.
The rump Parliament in its session in France will observe the procedure employed in Brussels until the German advance.
Last Interview M. Pierlot and M. Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, will report on their last interview with King Leopold at Wynondal Castle last Saturday when they were accompanied by the War Minister, General Henri Denis, and the Minister of the Interior, M. A. Vanderpoorten. In the interview they argued with King Leopold throughout the night in an effort to dissuade him from surrendering.
The rump Parliament will without question unanimously approve the Government's three decisions taken yesterday: King Leopold's surrender decision is null and void because it bore no ministers' signature: therefore it is not constitutional. By placing himself under foreign control, King Leopold is incapable of exercising his royal power: therefore the Government assumed the powers in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. Belgians will continue the r by raising a new army among the millions of refugees abroad and by enrolling Belgian refugee workers in French armament factories and on farms.
300,00 Men It is conservatively estimated that the Belgians should be able to raise 300,000 able-bodied recruits for the new army. When operations began in Belgium, the Government ordered men not old enough to serve in the army and exempt from service to leave immediately for foreign countries in order to escape from falling into German hands.
Most of these men made their way to France, travelling hundreds of miles on bicycles, carts and old automobiles, They are now being sent to assembly points for military training.
The Belgian Government also took the precaution of sending to France full equipment for 60,000 men when the Germans violated tha Belgian frontier. This equipment will suffice for the first units of the new army. In addition to supplies on hand, the Belgian Government exported 23,000.- 000,000 franes worth of gold to the United States and England. This sum should be sufficient to complete the new army's rudimentary equipment.
Belgian Congo The Belgian Government the other night informed the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo that he was to ignore King Leopold's surrender order and that Belgium was still at war. From the viewpoint of international law, Belgian Congo is not affected by King Leopold's act.
This rich colony was willed to the Belgian state in 1889 by the present King's grandfather and became an organic part of the state in 1908. Therefore, international law experts said, King Leopold cannot alienate it to Chancellor Adolf Hitler or anyone else—United Press,
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