| Show BRYCE DESCRIBES ATROCITIES Committee of Englishmen Attest to Cruelties In Belgium London Viscount Viscount James Bryce former British ambassador at Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and no now chairman of a special government committee appointed to investigate and report on outrages I to have been committed by 1 German troops during the present i iwar war has submitted the report of the committee to Premier Asquith The document is probably the most severe arraignment thus far made ot of the German military sweep across Belgium Bel Bel- V gium glum because Viscount Bryce is is' isa a historian his torian because most of the members 1 of the committee are jurists of the highest standing and because of the V care with which the Investigation was made the great number of witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses examined V and the mass of evidence evi evi- V V V dence lence submitted with the report The report t declares that there were m fl many parts of Belgium end and organized massacres j f of f th the thA civil accompanied by many isol isolated t d murders and other 4 outrages o That in the conduct of the war generally gen- gen innocent civilians men women and hildren were murdered in large numbers rs women violated and children V. V murd murdered red V That tooting house burning and the j I wanton destruction of property were ordered and countenanced by the officers officers of of- of the German army That the rules and usages of war i were frequently broken particularly by bythe V j the using of civilians including wamen women women wo wa- wo- wo men and children as a shield for advancing advancing ad ad- d. d J forces exposed to fire to a aless aless less degree by killing the wounded and 1 prisoners and In the frequent abuse of 1 the Red Cross and white flags |
