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Show ALBERT IS T8 IITpilG King and Queen of Belgium Will Be Guests of Amer-ican Amer-ican Commander. CHAUMONT, March IS. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium will arrive here tomorrow to-morrow for a three-(iay visit to General Pershing. They are expected to make the trip from Brussels by airplane: The king and queen will go direct to General Pershing's chateau, a few miles from Chaumont, and will Inspect a guard of honor composed of picked troops from the American forces stationed near Chaumont. Chau-mont. They will have dinner with General Gen-eral Pershing and will spend the night at the chateau. On Thursday the king and queen wilt come to Chaumont to attend a formal reception in their honor at the city hall. The party will then go by automobile auto-mobile to Montigny-sur-Aube, the headquarters head-quarters of the Eighth American army corps. They will take luncheon with the commander of the corps and will review the- Eighty-first division. Returning to the chauteau they will receive the civilian civil-ian and military members of General Pershing's staff, the French officials of Chaumont and the chiefs of the various allied missions stationed at Chaumont. In the evening they will dine with General Gen-eral Pershing, his personal staff. the chiefs of the allied missions and a number num-ber of American officers. Friday morning the king and queen will go by automobile to Chaumont to witness tile guard mount at general headquarters. They will then go to the headquarters of the American First army and have luncheon lunch-eon witn Lieutenant General Liggett, the commander. In the afternoon they will see. a football game between two American Ameri-can army teams, after which they will i e-turn e-turn to Chaumont to dine with General Pershing and to attend a theatrical performance per-formance bv American soldiers in the evening. The king and queen will leave Chaumont for Brussels Saturday. |