KING ALBERT'S ESCAPE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12538, 8 May 1915, Page 2

KING ALBERT'S ESCAPE.

How King Albert, escaped a characteristically despicable plot against his life set in train by the Germans is told, in ;i recent number of the "Depeehe tie. Toulouse." When the Germans occupied Brussels they found in the hospitals of the town 300 Belgian wounded, whose- uniforms they seized. Their idea was to dress 300 of their own soldiers in these uniforms and send them to Antwerp, where, passing for Belgian soldiers who had made good their escape, they would murder the King of the Belgian's and his staff. The fact that, the murderers were wearing Belgian uniforms would enable the German lic-inon-gering agencies to assert with a colourable, pretence of veracity that the Belgian King had been assassinated by his own subjects. Fortunately, the disappearance of the 300 uniforms did not pass unnoticed by the Bruxellois, who jumped to at lea=t a partial divination of the plot. So when the 300 assassins leit Brussels en route for Antwerp a powerful motor car pre* cded them to give the alarm. Some six or seven miles from the defences of Antwerp the 500 were received by an advance-post of the Belgian army, greeted with a semblance- of enthusiasm, and directed on their way. They advanced unsuspectingly till at nightfall they found themselves among barbed-wire entanglement's and under a fierce fusillade. Xot one of the would-be assassins returned to Brussels.