BELGIUM.
BELGIUM'S STATUS. A REVISION WANTED. Received Nov. 14, 1C.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 13. The New York Times' Washington correspondent reports that the Belgian Legation has issued a statement that Belgium is not willing to submit to the status quo as to guaranteeing her neutrality, like that existing before the war. Complete freedom would relieve Belgium of foreign control, and enable her to make arrangements for,her own defenc.e Belgium must be allowed freedom to determine her own destiny, and must be free to adopt of her own volition a policy which will keep her out of great international competitions and permit her to take the necessary measures to defeat hostile designs against her in the event of new danger threatening.—Aue.-N.Z, Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1918, Page 5
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