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Show WOMEN CHAINED TO GUNS BY GERMANS Kaiser's Troops Keported to Be Practicing Prac-ticing Inconceivable Brutalities to Stem Allied Tide. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) WITH THE AMKRICAN ARMY ON TH K A1SNK-MARNU FRONT, July 28. Reports which as yet have not been confirmed con-firmed officially continue to pour into the American lines to the effect that Germans are now chaining women to machine suns tn an effort to stem the aJIied tide of advance. An American colonel who returned recently re-cently from tho battle. In the Soissons-Rhelms Soissons-Rhelms sector told of having himself witnessed wit-nessed scenes which, when ihe.y were reported re-ported earlier by individuals from various parts of the front, had not been believed because of their inconceivable brutality. According to this officer, be was a witness wit-ness of women having been manacled to guns which they had been taupht to use arid commanded to serve. Prisoners like-wlsft like-wlsft verify the story that the Germans are utilizing women in their e' forts to win the war at Hil costs, though the women in no way have approximated the "battalions "bat-talions of death" in Russia. It is asserted that force has been necessary to make the women serve. The colonel also told of larire numbers of minors of 1$ and 15 and even 14 years of Hpe betns; amonp the prisoners. Some of them, he sAys. told him they had heen instructed by their parents to surrender to t he Americans at their first opportunity, oppor-tunity, after sat Isfyin themselves that American troops were opposing hem. |