Lager and Maps.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 April 1915, Page 3

Lager and Maps.

GJslt-.\lJrN I'OKESIGHT. Ail interesting story illustrating the completeness of German war operations has reached mo, says the military correspondent of tin- Liverpool "Daily J'ost." A liritish officer recently home on furlough was in Antwerp before the German occupation. In company with a Belgian officer of iiis acquaintance 'ie went for a walk ono afternoon into the neighbouring country. The pair entered a little roadside inn and called for some layer beer. On the walls of what we should call the bar parlour were a number of large framed advertisement* among them being ono of Somebody's Lager Beer—needless to say, made in Germany. This advertisement caught the eye of the Belgian officer, who ro;e exclaiming, "Ha! another of them. ,. With his walkingstiek he smashed the , glass and tore the advertisement out, throwing it down back' upwards before his English comrade, who saw to hi amazement a very perfect map of the ■country round Antwerp on a scale of six inches to the nnTp. The Belgian officer informed the Englishman that when the war began there was not a public-house in the distent without one of those advertisement and when the invaders lost their bearings their officers all know where to find a chart not far away. ''he innkeeper was a Belgian patriot above suspicion, who. of course, knew nothing about the map. He informed the officers that the advertisement in question had been delivered to him nir;p years previously by the Genua > brewers, and had been hanging in his purlo'lir even since. This story, which T think may be accepted ae Iruo. provi* that the (Xerniaus had formed their plans for invading Belgium at least rjiijie years ago.