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Show PETROGRAD, Sept. 20. A dispatch received re-ceived here from Berlin, dated September Septem-ber 18, says: "A Russian general has been pent, in irons, to Halle to he arraigned before the council of war for having given orders, it is charged, to burn all the German houses In east Prussia and to exterminate every man, even noncombatants, who furnished supplies to the enemy." The Russian general staff formally denied de-nied the accusation, declaring that no such orders were issued by the Russian commanders excepting in extraordinary cases where Frieger Vereln fired on the Russian troops. |