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Show UN USE BOMBS IN EUROPEAN WAR BELGIUM PREPARES PROTEST TO POWERS AGAINST ACTION OF GERMAN AERIALISTS. Nine Hundred Houses Damaged and Many Lives Lost When Town Was Bombarded From the Sky. London A bomb-dropping exploit of tho Zeppelin airship at Antwerp promises to become a mutter of widest wid-est International consideration The llelglau authorities claim the attack was u clear violation of artlclo 2i! of the fourth Hague convention, and they are preparing to protest ofliclally to all tbu powers against the manner man-ner of warfare Accounts vary as to the amount of damage done by tho aerial lighter. Ono account says that twent-slx lives were lost, although from more) conservative sources it Is reportul, that only twelve bodies have beenl recovered from the ruins of the! wrecked houses. A dispatch which Is regarded as semi-official states that 900 houses wero slightly damaged and sixty I wero nearly destroyed This dispatch was sent to lxjiidon, It is said, after a committee which included tho llelglau llel-glau secretary of state, tho Itusslan embassador, tho papal nuncio and King Albert's sccrutnry had examined exam-ined tho entlro city with n view to appraising the results of thn aerial bombardment. This dispatch, published pub-lished by tho Chronlclo, says: "For the llrst time lu history n great civilized community has been bombarded from tho sky In the dead of night. Count Zeppelin, whom tho Oerman emperor calls tho greatest genius of the century, has performed tho greatest exploit of his life. Ho tins thrown bombs on hospitals whore llelglans wero attending Gorman wounded. Ho has staggered humanity. human-ity. On August r tho German commander com-mander warned Gonoral I.emnn at Liege that If tho forts did not surrender sur-render tho Zeppulln Meet would move against llelglum. "Tho Germans have been ns good ns their word. Wo havo explored every ono of ten devastated streets and havo found portions of ton bombs. Tho number of victims Is unknown. It Is significant that all tho bombs wero aimed at public buildings, build-ings, such as tho military barrackB, tho government offices and tho royal palace. Tho population Is In gloom." |