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Show NEW BELGIAN ARMY IS NOW TRAINING (Cpecial Cable by London Daily Telegraph). Tele-graph). I'.iris, Oct 18. That a new Belgian army Is now training in France, with tht object of joining the remnant of the Belgian forces and winning bark thf country, is the revelation made today by a Belgian minister at Havre, according to the Temps. The l'il4 conscripts, as well as thousands of olunteers, are being actively drilled and equipped and are sworn not to lay down their arms until the Germans are expelled from thHr country. The minister says that King Albert and his minister spirit only fifteen minutes in deliberation at the midnight mid-night council in tne royal palace when they decided to return a negative nega-tive answer to the German ultimatum demanding that German troops be permitted to operate across Belgian territory in violation of the neutrality agreement nn |