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Show WHAT OF ANTWERP? Tho Belgians insist that the evacuation evac-uation of Brussels without serious opposition op-position to tho taptors was from tho start a part of their plans. Without saying"so, they leave it to be plainly inferred, that it will be different nt Antwerp, Brussels had Uttlo or no fortifications compared to Antwerp. Tho latter la strongly fortified for-tified tho approaches thereto are mined, so that whole cavalcades of Infantry, enn bo blown "sky high," and the land It so diked that tho water wa-ter can bo turned In to cover vast territories. Though tho dispatches havo been so censored that It is Impossible to telrwhat assistance tho English forces for-ces havo rendered, or are planning to glvo, yet It Is probablo that at -Vtnvcrp tho Germans win have t ' noct French, Belgian nnd 'English troops 1 'In thnUovent, tho'worid will likely hear of real fighting, for Napoleon's Na-poleon's most Intimate biographer, Courlenno, says It was the unflinching, unflinch-ing, Impregnable English "squares" that turned the tide and wrecked tho .hopes of tho Llttlo Corporal at Waterloo; Water-loo; and history has n way of' repeating re-peating Itself. ? ? |