ANOTHER WAR SCARE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 February 1913, Page 5

ANOTHER WAR SCARE

BELGIUM AND .GERMANY. SECRET SITTING OF BELGIAN DEPUTIES. OX THE CREST OF A VOLCANO. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BRUSSELS, February 15. At a yccret sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the question of defence was discussed. After the Premier states that there would be war, the Minister of War said they were on the crest of a volcano. .Large forces were boiug massed in the east and smith of Belgium. It is nnderstoou Tfiat the Premier is particularly impi-ossed with Germany's military preparations at Elsenborg (PAttenberg), where there is a great manoeuvring camp of the ( allien z Army Corps, and also with the great strategic railway running parallel along the frontier from Aix-la-Chapello to Mabnedy. (Belgium is a neutral Power, her neutrality being guranteed under the Treaties of London, IS3I and 1813 D, by Grent Britain, Austria, France, Prussia and Russia. The army lias recently been reorganised on. the basis of personal service. The new establishment is 42.800 men on a peace footing, and 180.000 on a war The field artillery com,prises four brigades, each of two regiments, and each regiment includes six field batteries. Tn addition, there are twelve reserve field batteries and ammunition columns, while the hor?e batteries are four in number.)