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Show UNITED 5TAIE5 TO DEFEUUDG1NT PRESIDENT ADHERES TO NEUTRALITY NEU-TRALITY AND WILL NOT TAKE PART IN- CONTROVERSY. Tells Belgian Commission That Settlement Settle-ment of Questions Raised Will Have to Wait for Day of Accounting Ac-counting When War Ends. Washington. Formal notice was given to the world on Wednesday by-President by-President Wilson that the United States at this time cannot pass judgment judg-ment upon or take any part in controversies con-troversies between the warring European Euro-pean nations over alleged violations of the rules of civilized warfare and humanity. He said settlement of these questions would have to wait until the end of the war, which ha prayed might 'be very soon. The president announced the position posi-tion of the American government first in an address to the commission sent to him by the king of Belgium to protest against alleged atrocities committed by the German army. Later he sent a cablegram along similar sim-ilar lines to the emperor of Germany, replying to the latter-s recent protest that the allies were using dumdum bullets. The Belgian commission was received re-ceived at the White House with formal for-mal ceremony. The president, accompanied accom-panied by his military aide and several sev-eral high officials of the government, greeted the visitors in the east room and listened with grave attention to their address, setting forth in detail charges that German soldiery invading invad-ing their land had killed and tortured men, women and children, destroyed art treasures and sacked cities. |