BELGIAN VILLAGE IN LONDON
Wo have in the midst of, London a little Belgian village, writes a London correspondent. It occupies the .place whero once, I believe, the Earl's Court Exhibition was held. ■ The side-shows and restaurants and air the noisy, cheap glitter of such exhibitions have now disappeared, leaving only a few remnants, such as one curiously ironical noticeboard, "Break up the Happy Home — Society's Latest Craze." Now thousands of Belgians find refuge there, whoso happy homes the crazy social order of a world which still settles its quarrels by lire and sword, has wrecked. The little transplanted village is complete in itself, even, to police and firo stations, a labour bureau, etc. Tho village streets all havo Belgian names. What used to be Bostock's menagerie is now tlie concert hall,' and tho rifle range has become the publio baths.. But, strangest of all, the refugees' quiet cliapel, with its Angelus bell, was once in the far-off days bofore the war a kineinatograph theatre!
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 6
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165BELGIAN VILLAGE IN LONDON Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 6
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