BELGIUM TROOPS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4

BELGIUM TROOPS

TRAINING IN BRITAIN VOLUNTEER RECRUITS (I*.A.) . WELLINGTON, Dec. 6. According to cabled advice received by the Belgian Consulate in Wellington from the Belgian Press Agency in London, the Belgian Brigade, which has been fighting since the Normandy landing, is now resting somewhere in Belgium. Speaking of his men alter their exemplary bravery, the commanding I'.iiL-er said: “After four months’ inccsra; t lighting the brigade is tired, out already the officers and men are talking of going back up the line.” Tlie Belgian military mission now in London has started conversations with the Foreign Office providing for c. un ment and training in British c irm;; of Belgian Army recruits. They are ail volunteers and chiefly members of resistance groups. Belgian officers will command the recruits. but will train them under the direction of British inr.irnetars. British equipment will be supplied in accordance with the mutual aid agreement. Several thousand soldiers of the Belgian Army paraded on Sunday in the Place Rouale, Brussels, before the Prince Regent, the Frcsid'nts of the Chamber and Senate, the Prime Minister, and members of the Cabinet. A vast crowd cheered them, and also a detachment of tlie Belgian Brigade. A committee of four formed in Brussels with a view to the economic reconstruction of Belgium consists of representatives of the Belgian Government, the British and American Embassies and Supreme Allied Headquarters. The committee’s immediate objective is the importation of food into Belgium, and its plans Include the distribution of extra rations to workers and the restarting of war industries. The Belgian Ministers of Supply. M. Delsinnc, states that it is incorrect to say that the food situation is more painful than under German occupation. The daily ration of bread has been increased from 225 to 300 grammes and the meat ration from 20 to 35 grammes.