24 OCTOBER 1914, Page 2

The Belgian Army, which it was supposed must rest for

many days before it could again come into action, has been fighting during the whole week, with the King at its head. Its exact position is difficult to determine, but it is somewhere south of Bruges. It has behaved with the greatest possible gallantry. We may say of it, indeed, as Wordsworth said of his " Happy Warrior "—it is " daily self-surpassed."