BRUNSWICK, HE IN RICH JULIUS

Germany; DUKE OF (1564-1613), patron of liter Ocker, ture and the theatre; was elf oak man of multifarious attainments—a able jurist, a clever architect, and cattle dramatist. chemicals Saxony; Turkey (40° 12’ N., 29° 3’ E.); sill (1235); cotton, carpets; coal, silver, coppe Duke meerschaum clay; iron and _ sulph i by springs; seat of Gr. and Armenia to 1329; burned by Mongols, 1402; dam as August us ed by earthquake, 1855. Pop. 112,00 Great 1919), BRUSSELS, OR BRUXELLES, cay of Belgium, prov. of Brabant (50’ 5: N., |N., 4° 21’ E.); center of canal and 1 cathedral, system; industries, lace, furnitur museums; leather goods, etc. Modern town is we d out, has fine lime-planted boulevards or pbarating it from suburbs, and avenues five onecting it with parks and bois; Ru ia’s jer town in center. Important build Britain, 3s are town hall, magnificent palais Traders, justice, royal palace, houses of Parliawhich ent, three fine old churches, art and outbreak tural history museums, univ.; center the art and music. Various guilds were tablished in Bru els from 11th cent.; st charter granted in 1312; saw national uggles between rival guilds, and war, ecution of Egmont and Horn; thrice exploration rnt; cap. of Austrian Netherlands in 1876; th cent.; taken by French in 1794, Congo 10 held it till 1814; became cap. of 1922 Igium in 1830. Pop. (Greater BrusS), 728,900. During the World War, gemmifera, Bru els was tered by the Germans cabbage, on Aug. 21, 14. On the previous stem day the burgoister, M. Max, one of lateral the civilian ‘oes of the war, arranged each for the free age of the enemy’s troops through sprouts » city, the Germans promising to pay a cash for all requisitions, to respect autumn. slic and private property, and to nold the civil administration, A (1853), ce ional entry was made by an army old ps, under General Sixt von Armin, aposed of all arms, which goos erector ped into the Grande Place. Presently Petrograd; was announced that Germany had Corps 0sed upon the city a war indemnity commanded $40,000,000. The valiant M. Max invaded ght hard to preserve Belgian rights, in spring | became so troublesome that he was of ished to Germany, being released left wing n captivity after the armistice. The 1916); iod of Ger. occupation, which lasted succeede four years, was one of hardship and general i re for the inhabitants, whose spirit, ment, fever, was not broken. Publication ce ful Belgian newspapers was forbidden, mander-in-chief several secretly printed sheets, | (May ably La Libre Belgique, continued pear, and all the enemy’s attempts BRUT, x1 to suppre them or to discover Brit. r authors. German zeppelin sheds cycle’ r Bru els were frequently bombed connect Allied aviators, who also dropped hence lets bringing news o' the progre of traces war. On Nov. 15, 1918, four days he makes r the conclusion of the armistice, ineas 6 was a mutiny among the Ger. BRUTTIH, sth in the city. Three days later times; els was cleared of the Germans, Calabria; King Albert made a triumphant rm to his capital. and eir ru els (Sugar) Convention.—An i national conference was held in 1898 BRUTUS, rding sugar bounties, and was reRom. gens ed in 1901, the Indian Government sentatives s0unty-fed sugar. In 1903 a conarchy and ion was ratified by the powers, (509 B.C.), pt Ru ia, to suppre bounties, B.C.), the ther direct or indirect, on production Julius export. It was renewed in 1907 for years in a modified form, with adherence, In 1912 Great at the instig ation of Free withdrew from the convention was prolonged till 1918. The of the World War rendered convention ineffective,