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Show BRUTALITY CHARGED nGfllHSTIHE FRENCH Former Resident of Morocco j Makes Affidavit That Germans Ger-mans Were Mistreated BERLIN Dec i by wireless The German military authont es have taken measures to prevent famine among the inhab tants of part9 of Euss an Poland occup ed by the German army accord ng to news g ven out by the press bu reau today Another announcement from the san e source is that reports received from Constant nople say England n tends sending Portuguese troops into Egypt and that Mohammedan soldiers in Tun s are being embarked for serv ice m Europe Included n the informat on given out by the German off c al press bureau to day are the follow ng items Madrid reports that Moor Bh rebels have invaded Blanca and attacked the , local garr son and the authorities Botterdam reports that on the Boer farms in South Afr ca there are to be found only women and natives the men are at the front Pudolph Moeller, a German a former res dent of Morocco has sworn to an aff datit wh ch confirms the re port that German c v hans arrested n Moroeco at the outbreak of the war ha'v e been transported to Oran, Alger a there Irench off cers inc ted soldiers to commit brutal t es upon them The Ge manB were beaten v. th st eks bj t upon and attacked w th sabers Two men and one woman died from ill treat ment Cerman troops have discovered se cret instruct ons prepared by the Br t sh general staff wh ch conta n deta led nformat on concern ng the Belgian bor der the d spoB t on or roll ng stock on the ra Iroads and the b llet ng of men These nstructtons could have Deen pre pared only with the act ve ass stance ot the Belgian government wh ch supplied the deta led nformat on conta ned m them This s further ev dence that England and Belgium dec ded long ago on Encl sh m 1 tarv act tv m Beta m and th s means a olation of neutral ty Constant nople reports that there has been f ght ng between the Senuss tr besmen and the French n southern Morocco The leader of the Senu s was killed and the French were defeated The Pers an government has handed to the Br t sh nun eter at Teheran a note protest ng aga nst the v olat on of Pers an neutrality by the entrance ot Br t h warsh ps nto the Karun r ver The Italian government has se zed a Portuguese torpedo boat destrojer bu It at Genoa Athens reports that England has landed 34 000 Canadian volunteers in Eg pt The Fifth Austr an army has occ pied Belgrade Bulgaria Contradicts the Greek re f ort of a concentrat on of Bulgar an roops The1 Austrian general staff reports that f ght ng near Novo Eadomsk and Lodz is develop ng favorably A spec al d spatch from Gotten burg Sweden says a South Dan sh com mere al newspaper reports that n 1909 Great Br ta n threw out a feeler to Hoi land about the poss bil ty of conclud ng a military convention Holland deel ne 1 becau e such a course would be incon patible with her neutrality As a re ply to Holland, the Anglo Belgian agree ment mas concluded whereupon Holland fort f ed Flush ng The gold reserve of the Imper al bank is 1991000 000 marks ($49' 000 000) an increase over last week of 8 500 000 marks ($8 12o 000) Eome reports that Abyss n a has de cl ned the Anglo French demand to e 1 troops to f ght the Turks in Egjjpt |