Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-10-11

Ming AlDerC or Belgium, one of tn
 greatest figures of the world wa
 celebrated throughout the world fc
 his unbending courage when the odo
 were against him and his handful (
 staunch supporters, will pass throug
 Kingman Wednesday or Thursday C
 next week. He will be at the Gran
 Canyon October IT.
 King Albert is especially )interestin
 to Americans inasmuch as his earl
 days were spent in this country as on
 of us. During the days of his Ne,
 York experiences as a newspaper man
 M. B. Dudley, mine operator of Mo
 have County, also in the newspape
 game at that time, with the New Yorl
 Times, came in contact with him, an,
 found him regular human being''
 Below we give little history, con
 corning King Albert:
 Albert l., King of the Belgians, tn, only newspaper reporter who ever be came monarch, is A years old anc
 is one of the most picturesque figures of the Great War.
 The king took a postgraduate course in newspaper" training ir 1908 when, somewhat like Peter the Great, he visited the shipyards of France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia, to learn everything possible regarding ocean carriers with the expectation at some future time of putting Belgium high in the class of maritime powers. Several years previously, it is said, when merely the son of the Count of Flanders, a me- phew of King. Leopold, he came to the United States and worked as a re- porter on one or two newspapers in the northwest.
 Succeeding to the crown on Decem- Der 23, 1909, Albert I endeared him. self to the 7,500,OOO people of his lit tie kingdom. The abuses of the Con- go, which had brought upon the head of his aged uncle Leopold the con- demnation of the civilized world, were abolished and the king and his beau- tiful consort faced the prospect of a long and happy reign in a country where "tramps, idlers and soup houses are unknown" ..
 Then came the war. The King of the Belgians might have yielded and escaped much of the hardships and suffering that was the lot of himself and his people for more than four years. Needing not the spacious promises of the Germans to pay Bel. gium huge sums for the privilege of crossing her soil to attack France, the gallant king rallied his army of 35O,- 100 men and placed himself at their lead to fight the invader. When the German armies violated at Wise the neutrality of the little nation they were pledged to protect, they met with he most stubborn resistance from the 'aliant but numerically inferior Bel yians. at the forts of Liege and Ma nur.
 During the great conflict King AL 'ert spared himself none of. the rigors 'f the soldier. Often he exposed him. 'elf to shell fire and aviators' bombs ,urst about him. Once a German ! hell tore off the wheel of the auto mobile in which he was riding. At an- ther time chauffeur who had been 'romised S2O0,000 to deliver the king o the enemy was shot dead as he en- eavored to drive the royal car into he German lines. Hardly day pass d that he was not in jeopardy of his fe and futile efforts were made by is ministers to induce him not to ex- ose himself.
 "My skin is of no more value than ours" he told his heart-sick soldiers n their retreat from Antwerp. My lace is on the firing line
 Although his mother was Hohea- ollern princess and his wife Bava- ian princess, and although Tn his outh he had been educated in Ger lany, he maintained a1 lndapendence character that irritated the former mperor of Germany. The latter, mong other honors before the war, onferred upon Albert I, the title of onorary colonel of the Mecklenburg egiment, an act which the Eeigians ress construed as an ttfo,r If the erman ruler to gain an influence yer the young king.
 An indication of Aibert's sEirit ame when Belgium was invaded. In aking command of his troops on Aug ; st 6, 1914, he said: "A neighbor, N1 aughty in it's strength, without the l ightest provocation, has torn Up |;