BURGOMASTER MAX

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 93, 30 January 1928, Page 8

BURGOMASTER MAX

GREAT RECEPTION IN LONDON. A BELGIAN WAR HERO. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 25. London yesterday paid homage to Heir- Max,' Burgomaster of Brussels, whose name is honoured throughout the world. * The Lord Mayor and prominent London personages determined that his first visit to England should 'be celebrated as befits a hero. The visit coincides with subdued rejoicings at Doorn in honour of the exKaiser's sixty-ninth birthday. The Burgomaster, while a helpless prisoner in his own town of Brussels, refused to be cowed by German invaders, and Avhen the Germans were about to enter Brussels he issued a proclamation, in which he said, "So lons as I am allowed life and liberty, I shall do all in my power to (protect the rights and dignity of my fellow-citizens." He refused to subordinate his office to the orders of the German Governor, and for a month his serene patriotism compelled the respect of the invaders, but eventually he was imprisoned. Burgomaster Max lunched with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House ? and in the evening attended a public dinner at which Sir George Grahame, British Ambassador at Brussels, presided, halving come specially to London for the purpose. N Sir George Grahame declared that since the stabilisation of the Belgian franc, Belgium had made a marvellous recovery.