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the j vtere proud that $»§y were of the sane race. urard's distress 
when Germany iavaded 4e^feS«^%as juat what Dr Briquet had said of his. 
Hearard's was particularly acute because only a few weeks hefore he 
aad some others were botanisins oa the cliffs Bear Liege, ami met a 
botanist who was professor at the University. He took them to Mb 
home aad they used his herbarium to settle their puzzles. He said 
that the Germans allowed the Butch to 150 ia after the array to carry 
relief to the civilians, fe weat at oafce to Liege (after it had been 
taken "by the a ersaans ) and found this house where he had he en enter- 
tained was 'burned down. He learned that the son had "been killed, the 
wife killed at the door of her own hose and the old professor was a 
prisoner in Germany. Bt tried to set word to hia, hut shortly learned 
that he had lived only a short tiae. ~*oor Hearard's horror was not 
like ours, only, tho*s was the heart "breaking feeling of its being 
done by the neonle he aost adnired — it was a no via g tale told in his 
queer Anglian. Apparently they do not 1 'naturally" love the Belgians, 
but all their sympathy, was at once given to theig . 'i'hen he went oa to 
say how ungrateful the Bglgians were for all that the Butch had done 
for thsia, they 'want to take away gone of -Tolland — He is froo the Lim- 
bers district, himself, that Belgium tried to get. After the lavas- 
ion of Belgium, the Hollanders were --ever free of anxiety lest their 
county he invaded. They kept the array stationed along the frontier 
and were ready to flood the country any minute. He spoke bitterly 
of the Versailles treaty. He said that the men around the council 
table did not know as much geography as a child in primary school. 
"Nor as much about economics, either," I said. The aaaaea who de- 
cided ob the invasion of Belgduet are chiefly responsible for all that 
Gerraaay and Austria ^suffering today — I do not think we could have 
been forced into the war but for that— not that I think for a someat 
that we went in for anything hut profit to our profiteers and money 
1 en cl er s - -"but the inyo sio?'i o J^Sr.^-h, iff ' itf '^«4*~~'l «-f.n+.A 
