Show B BELGIAN ARMY FIVE TIMES LARGER NO NOS NOW S THAN IN 1914 81 of Alberts Albert's Soldiers Are Doing War Duty on ont t S Mile 25 Line f S By L. L Harper Leech Of OrThe The Telegrams Telegram's Washington BuS Bu- Bu S WASHINGTON D. D C. C Oct 20 Th The world hears much more of or martyr martyred martyred mar mar- tyr d Belgium than of at fighting Bel- Bel glum but glum but Belgium Is still fighting The Belgian arm army today Is five times times' larger than it was when Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many attacked the little country and Infinitely better organized and equipped Along the twenty mile Belgian front Belgians aro arc on the firing line awaiting the British push which will enable them to go for tor ward Back Dack of at this line there Is a shell swept stretch of at Belgian territory about the size of at the average American Ameri Amen can county can which county which still flies the Belgian Belgian Bel Del gian flag But the vitality of at the Belgian Belgian Bel Del gian glan state cannot bo ho measured in terms of at territory Back of at the firing line there are more Belgian troops in trainIng training training train train- ing or reserve Back Dack of of- these is a fully equipped munitions system and base and transport organization In InDel Del Belgian lan munitions factories In France or England operated by Belgian managers managers managers man man- agers and worked b by Belgian women children and wounded men a large part pah of or the supplies for the army are pr produced As Belgium aen no longer levy taxes in her own territory she has bc been n financed by loans from Britain and ana France and the United States which is lending her per month In Africa the Belgian fg waves over the Congo territory and a Belgian Belgian Bel Del gian glan arm army of natives officered by hy Belgian officers has conquered from Germany square miles The reorganization of th the Belgian BelgianS S army is one of the wars war's miracles At Atthe th the the- outbreak of the war Belgium had only about regular troops with ardes corresponding to our to-our our national guard Germany struck while hile Belgium lum was just beginning her preparedness program A law had hall been passed In 1913 for the training fo fa men per year and the creation of reserves but it had not gone Into effect The Belgian egian army had practically no artillery but had ordered and paid for francs' francs worth in Ger Ger- many These guns were delivered to I th the German army When the Belgian army arrived at its its' present position it sustained the main drive of the tho German army in an eighteen days' days battle losing of its men Immediately King Albert called to the colors all Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian glan refugees of military age The re response brought over 2 men and the work of reorganization began In artillery the Belgian army is to toI today today to- to I day times as strong as it was at atI atthe atthe I th the beginning of the war |