The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-16
COLONEL JACQUES HERE WITH KING
 A NOTABLE MAN
Claims to Have Had "Front Row" Seat When Ger mans sharted Big
 Show in 1914.

New York, Oct. 16-Leutenant General Baron Jacques, who, ac- cording to his own assertion, occu- pied the front seat in the front row. when the Germans opened the great international show in 1914 is the most striking member of the suite which is accompanying King Albert of Belgium on his visit in the United Sta ,es. Tall, straight hs an arrow, General Jacques looks like the fighting man he is and has been from boyhood, for he is one of the profes- sional soldiers upon whom Belgium relied when it made the great deci- sion which held up the German army until French and British soldiers could get into action.
 General Jacques was in command of the Twelfth Regiment, one of the crack military organizations of Bel g5um and was stationed at Liege where General Leman was in con- mand.
 T had never been impressed by the bombast of the German soldiery and I had full confidence in my own men," said the General as he sat in his plainly furnished cabin on board the George Washington on the voy- age to New York and talked of the early days of the war.
 I've first came in contact with the Germans on the bridge at Vise and after a sharp fight drove them back capturing the flag of the 97th Bran denburg regiment.
 That fight aroused the people, and nmediately we had more than a thousand civilian volunteers, digging trenches and helping in every way possible. General Leman issued a proclamation in which he said: Big Germany has invaded our country imposing an ultimatum which con- stitutes outrage Little Belgium proudly accepts the challenge. The Belgium army will do it's duty. The people of Liege only ask to be all lowed to do theirs'.''
 During the dtscouraging days which followed, when the Belgian army was compelled to retire from place to place until it at last had to give up Antwerp and begin its slow retreat along the coast, General Jacques nev- CT doubted the final outcome, and en- couraged his men by pointing out that when they reached the Yser riv- CT the backward movement would end And so it did.
 My regiment had orders to hold Dixmude till death and We did. Not until high command decided to evac- uate the town did we leave our places," said the General.
 '"The war is over. But the Ger mans still have arms and men. It is up to the Allies to see they do not use them again. I look upon the German as a, barbarian who still has in his heart the desire to conquer, be- cause he is trained to it from the cradle. This war was not a war entirely of the Kaiser's making. It was a war of the whole people, a war for loot. They believed they would be able to get to Paris in six weeks, and the booty they took would amply compensate for the expense of miIi- tary operations"
 General Jacques has had an ad- venturous career. As a young of ficer he went out to the Congo, and in the early nineties began his mem orable fight against the Arab slave traders. On one occasion, when he and his natives were hard pressed by a large body of Arab slave traders he killed eighteen of them with his own rifle. His administrative work in the Congo also was Of a high or der. He has been decorated IT times, and wears the highest honors his country can give, while other coun- tries have been only a little less gen. erous in recognizing his abilities and va1or.