BELGIUM READY.
WARNING BY PREAIIER
BRUSSELS, May 5. The Premier (M. Pierlot), .in a speech, said: “Only an attack against Belgium’s frontier or an equivalent/act incompatible with the nation’s dignity or security will make us break the pact of peace binding us ,'to all our neighbours. Belgium is no’ longer a battlefield open to all the: belligerents.; .< It is a- fortified camp, defended by the army against all invaders.” $ The Times Brussels correspondent savs the Rexist (Fascist) Party is bordering on disintegration. Many Rexist members of Parliament and provincial and municipal representatives are. .resigning as a result “of M. Leon Degrclle’s pro-Germanism,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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102BELGIUM READY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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