Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 6 | Belgium Uber Alles

BELGIUM UBER -ALLES. It is rash to assume that Belgium is more invaded against than invading. As a 'matter of fact, Belgium has conquered con-quered more of German territory than Germany has conquered of Belgian territory. ter-ritory. WLile not professing to be very well acquainted with the geography of that region in East Afrit a invaded by Belgian Bel-gian forces, we f?el confident 4hat they have already possessed themselves of mere square miles than there are in all Belgium. We read that Colonel Molitor, Kiug Albert's commander in the East African campaign, occupied Kigali, capital capi-tal cf the German province of Ruanda, on May 8. The Belgians have also captured cap-tured the island of Kiviuvi, in Lake Kivu, which the Germans took by surprise sur-prise at the beginning of the war. We do not recollect just where Lake Kivu is, but we think we can understand why the Germans cbnquered the island so easily and why they were so easily vanquished. van-quished. Our excursions into the fauna of central Africa have taught us that the Kivu is a fly known to be the transmitting transmit-ting agency of the sleeping sickness. It appears fairly certain, therefore, that when the Germans raided Kivu they found the garrison asleep and that when the Belgians raided back they overcame a German garrison which had been snoozing for nearly two years. ' Litfe did the kaiser think, when his army swept into Belgium, that twenty- two mourns later JVing luart wo.'.iu control more of German than the kaiser coutroas of Belgian territory.