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Tip Belgian representative cliamber has resolved by 57 to 42
that Antwerp shall be fortified ; the step undoubtedly shows the doubts entertained at Brussels as to the duration of peace. It has.been opposed by strong manifestations of printed opinion in Paris.: In Belgium itself it was opposed by a party with which the French Government will hardly identify itself. On the whole there seems to be a good deal of cross purposes in the measure, but we have explained in a separate paper what are the really simple merits of the question.
