TOY HORSES FOR THE GERMANS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15166, 2 January 1915, Page 10

TOY HORSES FOR THE GERMANS.

» ■ According to a Paris paper the children of Brussels have been guilty of an act of lese-majeste against the Kaiser and his invading host which in ordinary circumstances might have cost them and their native city dear. Bufc at present the German Eagle has disguised itself as a sucking dove in that quarter, and so the little amusing comedy on tho part of the Brussels gamins, in which they poked fun at tho German Lords, was allowed to pass without comment. Tho other day it is said the tierman Governor of Brussels affixed a proclamation to the walls of the city making the usual plundering requisition. On this occasion the burghers were asked to bring to the Town Hall what horses remained in the city and neighbourhood. The order was" complied with so far as possible ; but what was the consternation of the alders when they saw a orowd of children coming on behind them dragging all the old" wooden toy horses, donkeys, and other beasts that they had collected from cellars and garrets, where they had been stowed away. Those they gravely took to the Town Hali, and* left for the Germans, who, it is said, were furious, liut in present circumstances were impotent to vent their wrath. It is the 6rst laugh thet tho people of Brussels havp had since thoir city fell into the hands of the Huns.