INTERESTING ANECDOTE RELATED ABOUT ALBERT OF BELGIUM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 221, 27 October 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

INTERESTING ANECDOTE RELATED ABOUT ALBERT OF BELGIUM.

Tin' -,011 of a lending manufacture. - of Hiu-M-U. whoso two lirotkers have been killed at the front, tolls the following anecdote, wh'ch dates from the first summer of the war: —

"I: had If en a hot day, and Kin,:; Albert, who had not left the trenches for hour.-, was suffering from thirst. He asked for to drink, hut not a so!di'.T had anything left. Back of the trenches a man saw a horse drinking and went, over and started to pull the bucket away. ■' "Don't do that,' said the King. 'Lot the poor animal dr:nk ; perhaps it nced-i it more than 1 do.' "Jt was not until tlu' horse had rin ished drinking that the King took < n the bucket and drank the few drops that remained."

A REFINEMENT 01" CRCELTY. The "NaVonal Tidende," of Copenhagen, has published from its Paris correspondent an interview with il Carton do Wiart, in which the Belgian Minister states that the Germans now allow correspondence from wives and relatives in Belgium to belgian soldiers serving at the front. But tins apparent favour merely disguises a refinement f cruelty. Letters are allowed only when they contain had news, as to the death "•• 'llue-s nf a luemh.'r of the family. It is observed that by this systcmati practice of the German authorities 'n IJe'iriimi no correspondence containing

good news of merely c.-oryeiay topics is allowed to pass, and Belgian soldiers are cut off from their relatives in Belgium, who hear from them, therefore, only ulr.'ii some bereavement or misfortune strikes them.