BELGIUM'S ARMY.

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 13

BELGIUM'S ARMY.

The Belgian Army is said to he more numerous and better armed than at the beginning of the war. Many people must have wondered how it manages to keep going at all, with seven-eighths of its country in the hands of the enemy. It is dependent, like other armies, upon the continued existence of numbers of institutions ; depots, training schools, arsenals, stores, repair factories, and many others. All these have had to be [ established in France, bnt there, at vari- | ous points behind the front, Belgian men and horses are trained, repairs to gnus, motors, and everything else are attended to, and the innumerable other articles required by an army are manufactured. These Belgian military establishments are described by a Times correspondent who visited a number of them lately as a triumph of improvisation. It is no easy matter to set up the whole of a country's military establishments in foreign territory, and with an exceedingly limited amount of material in hand. But Belgium has done it. Land and buildings have been acquired, sometimes _ from the French Government, sometimes from private owners, and. the greatest ingenuity has been exercised in converting them to military purposes.