This
newspaper published a small item dealing with the Belgian navy since the First
World War. After the end of the war inherited Belgium from France a partly
dismantled cruiser, further more were some German torpedo boats handed over as
spoils of war, Brugge made a naval base and Belgian sailors almost likely
dressed like the sailors aboard appeared. But the journalist wrote that is was
just a waste of money. The cruiser was given back and everything ended. Hardly
a few years after the liquidation of the Belgian navy proposed a certain
Devesne that Belgium
needed a own navy casing a lot of commotion with some newspapers making clear
that this was all nonsense.
