[Footnote 244: The Land of the Five Rivers, on the north-west frontier of India.] [Footnote 245: Independent state of India, on the southern slopes of the Himalayas. It includes Mount Everest, the highest mountain of the world.] [Footnote 246: Members of a secret society in China with the cry, "China for the Chinese." The German minister at Peking was murdered, and foreigners were besieged, and an expedition, in which British, French, Germans, Russians, Americans, and Japanese took part, relieved them (August 1900). China was forced to pay 64 millions of money.] [Footnote 247: Native state of Madras, India; about as large as Scotland.] [Footnote 248: Native state of Central India; nearly twice as large as Wales.] [Footnote 249: Part of the Indian Empire, to the south of Afghanistan.] [Footnote 250: The high priest and ruler of Tibet, and the head of the religion known as Lamaism. He lives at Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, a country of Central Asia north of the Himalayas.] [Footnote 251: Aga Sultan Mohammed Shah, born 1875. He is a man of lofty character and great influence. He attended the coronation of Edward VII. as a guest of the nation.] [Footnote 252: Ruler of Kashmir, the most northerly state of India.] CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GERMAN ADVANCE ON BRUSSELS. Now we must return to Belgium, and follow the progress of the German forces in that country. There were two armies in Belgium--the one under General von Buelow,[253] and the other under General Alexander von Kluck.[253] We shall hear much of the latter general in the next volume of this work. If you were to examine his portrait, you would say that he is a man of sullen fierceness and great doggedness. This is by no means his first war: he fought against Austria in 1866, and was wounded at Metz in 1870. You already know that most of the officers holding high command in the German army are of noble birth. Von Kluck is an exception: he was only ennobled after he became a colonel. The two German armies in Belgium were only part of the vast force intended for the invasion of France. This force consisted of six main armies, which, on 7th August, were stationed as follows:--The Sixth Army was assembled in and around Strassburg; the Fifth Army, under the Bavarian Crown Prince, lay just south of Metz; the Fourth Army, under the Crown Prince of Germany, was on the border of Luxemburg; the Third Army was in the Moselle valley, facing the Ardennes; the Second Army was south of Aix-la-Chapelle; and the First Army was in and around that city. [Illustration: Indian Troops camping in a London Park. _Photo, Topical Press_.]