BELGIAN KING'S OPINION.
PRINCIPLES OF NEUTRALITY STRICT OBSERVANCE. (Received April 1. 7.30 p.m.) London. April l. King Albert of Belgium, in an interview, denied being a hero. '' You find them in the trenches," he said. The King affirmed that before the war he and his country scrupulously observed all the requirements of neutrality with the precision of the specifications of an engineering eontract. He was unable to explain why Belgium had had to suffer as she' had, and he could explain less the acts of German cruelty. He never imagined that Germany would be so malevolent. King Albert emphatically denied that Belgium had compromised her neutrality in the conversations that I had taken place before the outbreak of war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 7
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