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Show GERMANS RUIN AND ! PILLAGE A CHURCH Vandalism Attributed to Oficers and Men of Twenty-fifth Teuton Division. PARIS, Aug. 20. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Ger-maus, Ger-maus, according to the French claims, not onlj' deliberately caused the fires that have partially ruined the beautiful and famous cathedral of St. Quentin, but pillaged the city before they set fire to a part of it. The vandalism is laid to the door of officers and soldiers of the 116th and 117th regiments of- the Twenty-fifth German division, and, more or less directly, di-rectly, to the commanders of these units, respectively. Colonel Gjing, Colonel Klotz and General von Scharfenstein, who are charged with having ordered a systematic pillage of St. Quentin as soon as thev entered the city. Officers with soldiers to do the heavy work went about the city, it. is claimed, and carried off furniture, silverware, sil-verware, pianos and valuable pictures and shipped them to Germany. They even took safes with valuables and did I it openly, piling their loot onto vans in mid-day. |