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the DIST Division, the King said: "You
are the man who took Audenarde. are
you not?"
General Price replied modestly that
his artillery had aided in the capture
of the city
Il cannot tell you how I appreciate
that you did not fire on Audenarde."
King Albert added. II understand
you directed your shells over the CITY.
but not an American she'll fell among
the buildings or the civilians.
"The last time l visited Audenarde
here the people did not recognize me.
1t was still held by the Germans. l
flew over in an airplane. This time
they seem aware that l am here"
The Kings last remark was directed
toward the street, where a growing
number Of his people were gathering
and crying constantly in the time hon
ored manner, "Vive lie Roll"
AS the King stepped into the street
the American 1O7th Field ARTILLERY
Band, gathered together an hour be-
tore to play for two French generals
who had called to pay their respects to
General Johnson, hastily regathered
and played the Belgian national
anthem. This band halls from Pitts
burgh and is composed of many Of the
former members of the PITTSBURGH
Orchestra.
Crowds Follow His Auto
Following the Kings automobile to
Audenarde Square, where is found the
most ornate city hall with the excep-
tion of that of BrusselsA remaining in
Belgium to-day the band prayed the
national airs of all the Allied nations
as he King entered the structure,
built IN 1920, and conversed with Au-
denarde's burgomaster and the city Of
ticiais. Great crowds, hearing of the
Kings presence, filled the square, at
times almost drowning the notes of the
band with constant cries.
The crowd followed the King across
the war-battered square to the ancient
convent hospital where nuns and aged
inmates have been prisoners Of the
Germans for four years. Then AL
bert's subjects noisily cheered him to
his automobile, in which he departed.
Albert's popularity in Belgium is in
most direct contrast to that of the
royal refugees across Bclgiums bor-
der in Holland, who fed the wrath Of
the people he butchered in an effort
to dominate the world. Everywhere
Albert has appeared since the German
army began to evacuate his kingdom
+ under the pressure of the army in
Flanders his people have entnusiastic-
ally welcomed him back with cries of
'Vive lie Roi.'
saw Belgians to-day in perfect COL
umns four abreast, miles long. heads
erect, marching along cobbled roads,
with firm rhythmic tread their
brown uniforms, guns and equipment
seemingly SO new they appeared as a
bandbox army on parade marching
toward Brussels. Officers and men
alike, swinging their shoulders with
something akin to s#agger, this Bel
glan army seemed to maintain the
same spirit that made the world ad-
mlre them in their hopeless fight
against the Kaiser's exultant millions
at Liege and Namur in 1914. They
came along the road east of Ghent
to-day, their brown column stretching
back until it blended with the fiat,
treeless, sombre Flanders landscape
into obscurity,
Belgian peasants in the fields and at
the roadside stood open -mouthed as
this army of their countrymen passed.
They had been led to believe by the
Germans that the Belgian army was
irreparably crushed in 1914 Possibly
the only contrast to Belgiums army
on the march was the German flood of
troops over the same road toward
Ghent fifty months ago, when Bel
GUMS representation amounted to
ragged, weary groups of soldiers drag
ging tired feet in fight toward France
and the Channel ports.