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Show GREAT EXHIBITION IS OPEN IN BRUSSELS Special Cable to The Tribune. BRUSSELS, Aug. 5. Under the auspices aus-pices of the Belgian Red Cross and a German committee of which Governor-General Governor-General von Bissing is honorary president, presi-dent, an exhibition for social welfare has been opened here with great ceremonies. cere-monies. The exhibition, which is to be kept open until October 15, is principally intended in-tended to demonstrate the results and benefits of the social legislation iu Germany to the Belgians, who are to be made acquainted with the German system of -workingmen 's insurance, old age pensions, sanitary workshops and healthy dwellings . tor the factory workers. In a large moving picture theater connected with the exhibition Jhe German Ger-man methods for the prevention of tuberculosis etc., are illustrated, together to-gether with the results of old age pensions, pen-sions, the German laws for the protection protec-tion of the laboring classes and the restriction re-striction of child labor. In the theater lectures will be given daily in French and Flemish by prominent physicians, sociologists and scientists. |