PROVED, SAY
The Chicago Tribune long
ecopyrightea dispatch
O'Donnell Bennett, staff correspondent,
dated at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany,
which in specific detail disputes and
denies the charges of cruelties and
atrocities lodged against the Ger
fa Belgium. Mr. Bennett, in company
with Johan T. McCutcheon of the Chica
go Tribune, Irvin 8S. Cobb of the
urday Evening Post, Roger lewis of
the Associated Press and Harry Han-
sen of the Chicago News, tras
eled 100 miles through towns and
their cbservations le firm
conviction bar-
barities perpe
trated
hoods.
The following
ciated Pres
Roger Lewis
ment with Mr
Chicago Th ne
By the Associated Press.
New York An Associated
siafl correspondent Americ
and antecedents,
the New York office
in Brussels at the
man invasion, held as a
several days, and
to Holland, has
lowing story
“The night
tered Brussels,
guards and
ato the cf
Louvain, the; rought st
speakable German atrocities
ment of old men and child:
violation of women
“The Bel
prehension
ety, the viv:
city went out
The radianc
changed
groups of resid
ly and locked
hames, where
ters and drew
giana flags
Fears of Brussels Quieted.
"The historic i
through a
tion, remar
ft suffered
trembled wit}
tory at Water
* “in
citizens were hatting
with the German in
legations of Ger
moniacal tort
the myths w
Wars,
“Neither
virons was a
far as | know,
soldier. In
Hoa people,
of perhaps a
diers,
demand pu
test came § on
None Knows of yO oon.
"The frightful reports
eeded the
facluded the diger
and the impaling o
Just outside
not only
rumors, but ne
any one in the imm
credited them
“An
veracity told me ths
havior he had observed
Cerman ent
19) was that
leaned from
pretly Flemish
a glass of beer
“I marched
man columns, often onl; day be
kind the fighting, with the he usds that
had been bu smoldering,
ground freshly broken by shell
trampled by horses
memory of Lhe rerman
fia the
prints a
from James
mans
Sal
Daily
of
wad him to the
Of
the report
to have been
by troops false
are
ol an
WHO was sent
prisoner
escay
mail the
finally
w hie
sxperiences
he Germans er
the Belgian civil
began
direction of
pouring
ories of un
witreat
en, and the
gian « ital reeled with
Eably
on
less
vaders and
ir to awaken
Lisment
to
that
German army
fail
iRIe
eye wits
worst be
vain {August
i soldier
and
brough
rned still
and
and the
and men,
advan ©
minds of the inhabitants
No Proofs of Murder.
“1 intery verage of
persons in each dozen
found only one of a
batant who
a justifiable provocation. In
the evidence did not «
the man had been want
“He lived in o
Belgian cot
jfewed
towns
tance noncom
without
this
prove that
had been killed
Case
early
only murdered
ne of tl
antryside ses which com
bine the comfor home with
lure of a small public bar. This house
was at the north of Merbes-le-Chateau
a lown through which a large part of
the German army passed on the road
to Maubeuge v
“A son of the murdered man,
pame was Arthur Nicodem,
blood clots on the floor marking the
place where Nicodem fell, his throat
cul by a saw-edged German saber.
English Fired From House.
"It was said by some inhabitants
that the murdered man showed a pair
of bicoculars; but a more probable
explanation is that English outposts
kad concealed themselves in the house,
fram which they poured a rain of fire
ho
ta of
NOT
3 AMERICAN
upon the
inference
first Ge invaders
that
by Belgian
rman
done
in-
the shooting was
have
als
civilian may
flamed the Germans to repris
“In that
had been
ablaze
Aug
neighborhood
burned and
passed
four
one was still
as | on Wednesday
26,
‘hate
unim
of Merbes-led
of an
hetween the Ger
he previ
i
vith ritle shots
This town
which had
portant skirmish
and Eastisn
Sunday, was rid
The small nbet
1
showed that the
au,
been the scene
mans on t ys
nu of windows intact
Germai
deliberate assault upon id
WI Hut habitan
nitted
had been
adr
News of
Differ on Louvain
sh
incident
I have not
direct eviden
| two instances,
| erally credited
sons is that the
Arms, ace
master's procla
trance them
if the
l
up
(Ger
mans were retreating fro the t«
{ and
upon
311 wn
opened fire from th w
a retiring German
Jarotzsky Tells Qutrages,
he most authori
of German offense
Gen. Thaddeu
governor of
that in numer
received with a
friendliness by Belgian
later fired upon the German
from windows and from the
roof tiles This was dqpe, said, !
after a declaration of surrender by the
burgomaster and a proclamation warn
ing the citizens against any show
reslatance,
“In such violations the rules
war, the general said, he punished the
offender by burning the
which the shots were fired
“l ean only say that in every case
of reported outrage or reprisal which
train
tative German de.
from
Jarotzaky.
Brussels,
nial
Maj
Comes
8 Yon
{ military who in
| formed
had
ne Us cases ho
been
civillans, who
soldiers
between
he
of
of
| was susceptible of investigation I have
| found either that the outrage
| figment of the Belgi mind
| it was more than half excused
umstances
was
or that
by chy
an
The prevalence of the Belgian pra
tice of from the
indicated by the
German officer who acted as guard
five American
cluding myself,
sniping
houses was
¥
| perhaps warning ol
| the
for correspondents, in
who were being taken
as 1 Aachen
ito
the
risoners from Beaumont to
train. We
lie down on the floor of the
in an army advised
Car
were
as
from
firing
rs would shoot at us
But there
jelglan
the hou
snipe
Hes was no
1 his,
German
German
of course, is not a brief for
the is account
appeared to
who had the
opportunity of travelin
with tl
he
army; it
conduct as it
an
impartial observer
extraordinary
days Ger
hun
portant
a distance of m
miles through
and 1«
th i ¢ the pris LOTR TT tght }
Cafe.
e in eaun
Ai
fav
id
Aid Owners of
po
ready estal
indliness of
observed
Ave
have seen perhaps hal
mmkenness in
oldiers,
nature
le | was detained
cafe pre
red]
fical
ordinary
of
SIA
with an arn
or, alth pec
HOUEH
was not an
» oF nse Tr of Fy t
grering petty officer
lunged toward and
me
me tha
sharp convincing edge
ting
sword, insis that
hand across {it
Warned to Avoid Drinking
German discipline and German
ng seem to have put into the
an exemplary behavior
8 than rémarkable
floor of
an soldier
ich is nothing les
fore 1 fell asleep on the the
with two German sol
guns slanting almost over me,
petty officer who was in
giving instructions to
the guards, which included the state
ment that any one of us who stirred
outside the door should be shot. Then
he counseled them, almost In a father
ly way to drink only moderately, stat.
| ing that if they became drunk he
would recommend a sentence of
| years in the penitentiary
“If the conduct of the German sol
dier errs at all it is on the side ofa
| too complete subordination. It is im.
possible for any one who has seen
much of the German system to be
Heve in the tales of deliberate depre-
dations and unsoldierly conduct.”
umont cafe,
diers’
I heard the
charge of us
15
KAISER ADDRESSES
TROOPS AT VIRTON |
Rokterdain ~The Cologne Gazette
reports that the German emperor de-
livered a speech to his troops after
the battle of Virton,
when he visited his son, Prinee Oscar,
who #8 commandant of the grena-
The kaiser appeared in the evening
with kis suite in five automobiles. He
Kissed his son and
| the lines greeting the men, who were
quartered in the village. Standing in
the middle of the square, the kalser
| said:
“1 greet you as your chief. I thank
you. I have often seen your regiment
on parade and now it gives me par.
ticular pleasure to greet you on con:
| quered land.
“Your regiment fought as | expected |
The battle of Virton will be eternally
inscribed in letters of gold in the his.
tory of the war.
] “Our comrades in the eastern army
| also fought gallantly, also the army of
{ the crown prince. The fourth army,
undef thesvduke of Wurtemberg, ad.
{| vanced victoriously. Our enemies are
| withdrawing in flight.
“The eastern army has driven three
Russian corps over the frontier. Two
Russian corps capitulated on the open
field. Sixty thousand men and two
genarals were taken prisoners.
“For all these victories we have to
thank but one--that is our God, who
is ever over us”
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Family From Fire—Five
Child
Saves
Hurt
Steeple Jack's Fall
In Gasoline Explosion
Fatal,
Zimmerman, a wellknown
The father J
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The h
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1
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Harry
r home
Mrs. Alene
band, former
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last Christmas night in Criminal Court
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Patrick J. Price, thirty-eight years
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4.
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who was one
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of the
The Treasury Department at Wash.
ington notified Joseph H. Shepp that it
would purchase the South Ward school
building site on West Broad Street,
Tamaqua, for £22,000 as offered by the
school board. The Department has also
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Commutation of Death Sentence
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Public Service Body Has Union Station
Case—Police Chiefs Of State Form
Association—Blames Care
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Commutation Of Death
La
Hunt
gawanoa
Police Chiefs Form Association.
forme
of Po
gident (the
Sout!
Ww
ary and
» Committee, James Robins
hia,
hinson
lea Evans
eaident: Geo
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arde?
ireasurer
Colonel
adelp chairmar
Hut and Superin
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addre
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Harry A. Boyer, president of the
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Marshal J. L. Baldwin to have been
due to carelessness, and he has directed
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