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Show GREY, BART. By THE RT. HON. SIR EDWARD THE wrongs done to Belgium have brought home to us that we must to secure jllSthc for spare nothing and if need be must spend everything ' . her and freedom for us all. d be invaded and What had the Belgians done that their country shoul tened no. one ravaged? What provocation had a people given who threa ate and wanted nothing, but to be let alone, to govern themselves, to cultiv their own land and to develop peaceful commerce P _ Love of liberty and independence is not crushed by oppression and force, but set off by courage and suffering becomes an inspiration to its own generation and is exalted to an imperishable place in history. ism By LORD HARDINGE, VICEROY OF INDIA ‘ By Telegraph from Delhi of series the India than abhorrence greater with regarded has nation NO crimes committed by Germans against their peaceful Belgian brothers. With the deep sympathy, felt for them by the people of India in this hour of sorrow, is coupled their admiration of the gallant resistance of their army against the heaviest odds. May they be comforted by the thought that their sacrifice will not have been in vain when the oppressors of the weak have been finally overthrown. India will never rest till Belgium's wrongs have been avenged. a..." i... .-- By SIR REGINALD WINGATE By Telegraph from Klmriozmz ON ‘behalf of the inhabitants of the Sudan, irrespective of race or creed, I ofler our respectful and united homage to Belgium's King, to the gallant Belgian people and to Belgium's dead, who, in a materialistic age, have Vindicated the supremacy of an ideal and thereby have testified that the age of heroes is indeed not past. i I have the honour of personally knowing His Maiesty who came to the Sudan shortly after his accession, stayed with us for a few days and Visited portions of the districts south of Khartoum. ' In the many tallts I had with him, I was particularly struck with his high lthfllS‘Of Ixingship and Government-not only of his own Belr‘rian subjects# but of the vast areas of the Congo Free State, in the advancebment of which he taltes a most humane and absorbing interest, and which under his direction, have made such sensible strides in the direction of true civilisation and progress 20 |