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Show ATROCITIES III i NUtf 10 i BE PROBED i 1 ' I By Aiioelattd Press, j WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 America and th allied countries hav agreed to send a special civilian mission to Poland to investigate reports of atrocities committed In that country- It mas announced' at the state department de-partment today that this step has been decided upon at the Instigation ' of the French government snd had been apuroved by the Polish repre- , TWHnttvr-s in the vartmi cmintrle. mum or imti ron PUBLICITY 4 ' Lutherans Ordered to Preach Pro-German Sermons; Some Did, j Others Were Loyal By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, l).-c 14 Gorman Luthi-rmi pastors wore instructed to prcauli pio-Gi-riuau sermons liefore t Ii o United States ontorod the war, I'arttAln 1-Ktpr nf flip mniv inti'lll- fifiu'e service tol th umait) lrp:i-K'lnila lrp:i-K'lnila invfftljritniK ronitnttte today and some of tti pnntoiK who ninl the army :itr unt rintinu-il (irf.t ti-in ti-in favnriihly to ;Tmany now are in the Atlanta pen It wit wiry. ! On th other hand, Captain Lester an id, other Lutheran min.MtT wr wholly loyal, lit n.tid rtpt.s utaiivcM of the larger Germ.in I.nlln run sviitxin Informed lha intcllitferice service that some ministers were disloyal and that steps wers belnif taken to gft them out of the church. . ' Iet( Tilling unsiKTervsful efforts of German propagations n amr n American Ameri-can negroes, the witnen iiid word was pasHed amontr the necro rerruit j that if Germany won snd occupied the T'nited states a portion of the country coun-try would na turnvd over to th.rn exclusively, ex-clusively, I Captain Lester o?ened his W'Mlin'-nv toilay by referring to nn ntlnrk on hia statement pul0ih d thiN morntnif hy the New York Amrlpn and tlNirih-nted tlNirih-nted hy the l'r.ivrs:il Srvi.-e, a Hearst organization. He remiticltMl the committeo that h had mad no statement state-ment yesterday that KdwaYd LeH Kox, an American writer, who was' on the government's payroll, was in the employ of th Hearst orKan)?!'t t ion "lint that fox diil receive cn-di-ntials from Merrill (then muiiairer of llearnt! New York American), tbwt he received letters from ;tiHtav Hchweppinilick. the Hearst ninnricer In IteiHn. and that he wrote srliclea f.(r the New York American and that these articles were puhllithed In the American.'' Captain Lester stated further that he had document showms: why the International News Service, a Hearst Institution, was barred from c i N. f a - rnnii's r.y ih iM .iih fcowrnn, nt iTT" 1916, and Die reason fur tiut restoration restora-tion of this service. He ud !n would present th evidence If the tcnimit- tr nskej if |