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Show BELGIUM SOON TO PRESENT ITS CASE PARIS, July 31. (By the Associated Press.) Next Monday Belgium will present pre-sent her case before the commission of fourteen which is discussing the question ques-tion of the revision of the treaty of 1839 under which her neutrality was guaranteed guaran-teed by Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia and Russia. The commission Is composed of two ; delegates from each of the five great j powers and two each from Belgium and Holland. Belgium does not seek any territorial expansion, but asks to be placed in such a position that, should there be a repetition repe-tition of the wanton aggression of 1914, she will be oble to defend herself on the Meuse and Scheldt rivers Instead of on the Yser. The proposal of Belgium does not Insist In-sist upon the relinquishment of the Ijim-bourg Ijim-bourg key to Liege and the left bank of the Scheldt key to Antwerp, but psks that guarantees be given, in the event of another invasion from the north, that IJmbourg will be properly defended, thus protecting Liege and permitting the Belgian Bel-gian armies to concentrate behind the Meuse. Concerning the Scheldt, Belgium desires de-sires free passage on the river in times of peace or war, and must receive guarantees guar-antees that her defense of Antwerp and the Scheldt will not be made impossible by the fact that she does not own the left- bank of the lower river. |