The British section of the Brussels Exhibition was success- fully
reopened by King Albert on Monday. King Albert assured the British Minister and the representatives of the Board of Trade and the British Royal Commissioner- General how deeply he had sympathised with them in the disaster, and how keenly he appreciated their energy and resolution in setting to work at once to restore the section. "Your high courage," he continued, "has added a new element of attraction to our great enterprise, and you have given to us Belgians a new testimony of friendship which we shall never forget." He could find no words to express his admiration for the unconquerable tenacity, so characteristic of their race, shown by the British Government and exhibitors. The reconstituted section, to judge from the accounts in the Press, does not suffer from comparison with its predecessor, and it is interesting to learn that in the depart- ment of ceramics those firms who lost most heavily by the fire are most conspicuous by the splendour of their exhibits.
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