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Show BELGIAN ARMY IS NEEDED FOR THE COMING BATTLES (Special war dispatches of the International Interna-tional News Service and the .London Times, by Colonel Repington, famous military expert.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Some persons think that Belgium, having been a neutral neu-tral state when the war broke out, has no right to cross her frontier If llie enemy is ejected from her territory. But Belgium Bel-gium is a sovereign state, against which Germany has formally declared war, and nothing whatever appears to disallow Belgium Bel-gium the free use of her sovereign rights and the conduct of .-uch operations as may seem to her good against Germany. We need the Belgian held army for later operations in Germany, and we need Belgian officers and Belgian witnesses for the court-martial which presumably will be set up for the trial of malefactors. Sooner or later the German general and other ot fleers who were l,i -.-ammand at Lou vain, Aerschot. Termonde and other places in Belgium and France, where savage sav-age excesses have taken place, will be arraigned ar-raigned for trial. German officers maintain sever- dise;-pline dise;-pline when they please and thev must be held responsible fr.- u,c misdeeds of thrse under their command. It is most important impor-tant thy t our government should -'bestir itself 10 i ollect irecise evident''.1 of nil the outrages which have neen (-n-niitted and discover the names of the mlsrveants of all rankf com-orned in theso erimes. Trial and the exemolary punishment of all offenders, of-fenders, withe---I regard In titla and rank, will be. the best and only moans of preventing pre-venting repetition of these atrocities, and these courts-martial can very well sit during dur-ing the progress of future operations. The lmnging of these odious wretches will st:ind as a record for all time, that those who place themselves above law will in the end find themselves mistaken. |