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Show WILLSEi SHELLS OVER THE CHMHEL By Jnlernallonal News Service. NEW YORK. Sept. 18. That the Belgians Bel-gians .soldiers and ' civilians have ' Inflicted In-flicted tho most shocking cruelties on wounded Germun soldiers was the declaration of August rfal'f, a retired merchant of Chicago. , Mr. Pfaff, who Is an American citizen, citi-zen, and Mrs. Pfaff, arrived hero today aboard tho steamer Orotic of the "White Slat- line. They have come from Berlin by way of Liverpool. "At l-'ort Lobrils. near Berlin, there are iKi.liOO Russians. 5D0U Belgians nnd 1.000 t'li'lish, all prisoners of war," said Mr. Pfaff. "The Hermans courteously permitted per-mitted the officers of the different nations na-tions to mess together. The thjrd nlsht tile, experiment was tried tho Russians and Belgians quarreled and started to light. Now they have their own mess. "At Cologne I saw 6OC1O more Russian prisoners, sixty-two Russian guirs. twenty Belgian guns and 240 British horses. The Herman general staff reported that 10", -000 Russians had been driven into the swamps outside of Koenlgsberg and annihilated, anni-hilated, "t was permitted to visit and talk with many of the wounded Germans who were In the various hospitals In Berlin. The condition of some of them was terrible. The eyes of many had been gouged out while they lay wounded on the battle-held battle-held by Belgian soldiers and peasants. "They told me of other Belgian methods meth-ods of torture and showed me evidence of some of the most shocking mutilations imaginable. "The Germans have fourteen submarines subma-rines and nine Zeppelins in Kiel and it is the plan of the general staff to sei.e the I'rench channel port of Calais, set up their heavy guns and bombard Dover across the channel. At the same time the Zeppelins will fly over London and drop grenades and bombs to set Are to the city. |