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Show GERMANS SET FIRE TO BELGIAN TOWNS LONDON". Aug. 23, :i:35 a. m A dispatch dis-patch lo the Daily News from Fariy says the Germans bombarded Charleroi between be-tween noon and 2 o'clock Saturday. They came into the town by way of the left bank of the Sambre river. That, same evening French troops arrived, but as the Germans kept up a fire from the houses in the lower part of the town, the French were forced To bombard it and that portion por-tion of the place was soon in flames. On the same day the Germans set fire - to a "whole series of outlying villages, destroying Marehiennes. Monceau-Cur-Sambre, Anderlues and Omelet. |