Show I 1 j NOTED AMER ICAN i WRITERS SAfE I i IN GITY or OF orI BRUSSELS I I I II I I L' L Bl By Associated Press 1 LONDON Aug 31 p. p m.-Arno m. Arno I Pos a magazine correspondent who II went into i into to Be Belgium some days ago aJo arrived urI ar ur- ar- ar I rived in London today from Brussels I which city lie ha left last Thursday nr Ho lie I said saki today that John T. T 1 of I Chic Chicago o irvin in Cobb of New York and Mr rf Hanson n of Chica Chicago o all aU correspondents correspond correspond- wore ero safe a c in Brussels when ho left Referring to tho the military situation in ini iI 1 J i Belgium Mr Dosch tad said ri It AI The The German auto trucks arc are a. a amar marl mar mar- t l Vol Equipped with scythes they mow ij Tj Tight right ht through hedges cs and wire fences I H if the tho roa roads s do not suit tho the drivers t These rucks are heavily armored and they are able to resist anything 3 except I fl artillery fire Lire Tho They Thoy enable tho the GorI Gorman Gor Gor- I man forces to tomake make forty miles a day The Tho h number of these trucks seems un un- un- un I limited 1 AI It Itis It- It is estimated that GerI German Ger I man snail troops s have made their way ij ii through h Brussels ls and that i f moved south of Brussels Tho The troops I I which passed through Brussels were wore II later engaged with lith tho the British forces I f Only a small detachment of Germans i was waa l ft in the Belgian capitalI capital I 1 havo o no personal knowledge of I I the horrible German atrocities reported I from Del Belgium ium Mr Dosch went on OU I I and and I am inclined to discredit most of these stories Tho The Germans also tell many runny stories of Belgian Begian atrocities most o of which I believe In some cas cases s Beli Bel Bel- i i boys and old men undoubtedly 1 tired on German soldiers from inside of buildings This was tho the case in 1 Brussels and elsewhere where and the men in in buildings from which shots were fired were in In some somo cases executed I know 1 o of no women or children being killed because of their havin having been found in ini i I buildings s from which shots had been beon i fired i I C Prom From what J at I I f have haTe heard beard I believe I the tho Germans havo wedged into the I allies an and that they thoy are arc not keeping a straight front to the tho enemy The line lino liner r of fighting from Namur so south th has been i a zigzag zig-za and nothing like what man many 1 l strategists have guessed I ii i Louvain is is a l pitiful ruin I came 1 1 through that city on my way out from Bel Belgium ium an and saw the tho smoking ruins Only the bi big cathedral was visible above tho the smoke and that ma may have gone later I was unable to go o to that 1 5 section ti n of Lou Louvain vain ain where whore the tho American colleges maintained by American u ubi bi bishops hops arc are lo located ate but i 1 hoard heard that they had displayed 1 tho the American can flag and had luul been spared l I 1 had hud no opportunity to learn of f tho Jio events which preceded d tho timo destruction tion ion of Louvain Lou Tho The loss Joss of this city is is cr universally ally mourned in Belgium um |