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Show NEWSPAPER MEI DENY ALLEGEHT1CITIES Writers With the German Army Exonerate Soldiers I From Cruelties NEW YOPK Sept 6 The Associated! Press has received a w re ess message ! from Berlin It was sent from A x La Chape e to Be 1 n for transn ss on. The au ho s a 1 of whom are well known American newspaper men were or g nal y ass gned to B usse s and when t a c ty was taken they were retu ned to A x La Chape e from wh c c ty they have been endeavoring to reach Lo don but without success The te e0 am was nart lp muti ated by Interference and certain words are m s ng but the text here given is clearly that intended by the autho s In spi t we unite in rendering German atroc es ground ess as far as we are ab e to After spend ng two weeks with and accompaning t e troops upwarl of 100 n es we are unable to report a s ngle instance un provoked "We are al o unable to con firm rumors of m streatment of prison ers or noncomba ants w th the Ger man co umns Th s is true of Lou ain Brusse s Lune e and Nancy wh le in Pruss an hands We v s ted Chateau So dre, Sambre and Beau mont without substantial ng a singe wanton bru ality Numerous in est! gated rumors pro ed ground ess E en where we ha e seen Germans paj ng for p chases and respect ng prope y r ghts as we as accord ing ever conslde ation After the bat e of B ass probably Barse) a suburb of Namur e found Belgan women and c ildren mov ng comfortab y abo t The day after i the Germans ad captu ed the town in Merbes CI ateau we found one citi zen k lied but w ere unab e o con f rm the ack of provocation Refu gees with stories of atroc t es w ere unable to supply d rect e iden e Be gians In the Sambre vallej d s coun ted reports ol crue ty In the surround ng countr es The d sc pi ne of the Ger man sold er is exce ent as we ob served To the tru h of these s ate ments we pledge our profess ona and personal word Roger Lewis the Associated Press Irvln S Cobb Sa urda Even ng Post and Phi ade p a Pubic Ledger Harr Hansen Ch cago Da" ly News, James O Donne I Bennett and John T McCutcheon Chicago Tribune |