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Title: A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

Author: Hugh Gibson

Release Date: August 1, 2006 [EBook #18959]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: This document contains several illustrations of
letters and posters. Where possible, the text on these illustrations
has been included in the description of the illustration.]

[Illustration: His Majesty, Albert, King of the Belgians
_Photograph by Boute, Brussels_]

A JOURNAL
FROM OUR LEGATION
IN BELGIUM

BY
HUGH GIBSON

SECRETARY OF THE
AMERICAN LEGATION IN BRUSSELS

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1917, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian._

TO MY MOTHER

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

His Majesty, Albert, King of the Belgians _Front_

FACING
PAGE
Facsimile of the first page of the German ultimatum to Belgium
(_in the text_) 16

Pass issued by the Belgian military authorities to enable Mr.
Gibson to enter the German Legation at Brussels 16

Maitre Gaston de Leval, legal adviser to the American Legation
in Brussels