Show BRYCE DESCRIBES ATROCITIES Committee of Englishmen Attest to toS Cruelties In Belgium S London Viscount Viscount James Bryce former British ambassador at Wash ington and now chairman of or a special government committee appointed to investigate and report on outrages to have been committed by German troops during the present war has submitted th the report of the committee to Premier Asquith The report declares that there were in many parts of Belgium and organized massacres of the civil population accompanied by many isolated murders and other au outrages trages That in the conduct of the gen generally ga innocent civilians men women and children were murdered in large Jarge numbers women violated and children murdered A f v T That at looting house burning and the wa wanton ton destruction of property were ordered and countenanced by the o officers officers of of- of the German army That the rules and usages of war were frequently broken particularly bythe bythe by bythe the using of civilians including women women wo wo- WOO men and children as a shield for advancing ad advancing forces exposed to fire to aless a aless aless less degree by killing the wounded and prisoners and in the frequent abuse of the Red Cross and white flags |