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BELGIANS REPULSE I iSER'SJlCES I OFFER FULL RESPECT OF BE I. I GIAN TERRITORY FOR RIGHT ' I OF WAY THROUGH BELGIUM. I Invitation to Abandon Resistance and I Allow German Troops to pa H Through Belgium Is Firmly Re. bI Jected By the Government. London. According to the Times, after tho heavy casualties which tba H Germans Incurred before the I. lege forts, the emperor approached King H Aloert or Hclcium through the queea H or Holland and promised, In recngnl- M tlon or llelglnn valor, most consider- ate treatment or the Belgian popula- M tlon and full respect for Belgian ter- M rltory, If Belgium would abandon her H rcslstanco nnd allow the German B troops right or way through Belgium, m These overturea, tho Times sayB, wtr m firmly rejected by Belgium B Berlin Tho German government la B n noto to the Belgian government In- H tlmatcd that tho Belgians have so brll- H ltantly proveu their honor in arms K that the government, alter taking B Brussels, would he willing to con- B cludo any arrangement compatible M with tho conflict between Ger- H many and Franco and would evac- K unto Belgium as speedily as war con- BY dttlons permitted. The Belgian gor BV erument replied on August 13 refut- Bt Ing tho German propoBlton. Bj