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Show BELGIANS REPORT SrajFLOUVJUN LEGATION IN LONDON MAKES PUBLIC FINDINGS OF COMMISSION COMMIS-SION ON ATROCITIES. Declare That Women and Children Were Stabbed With Bayonets and That a Workman Was Thrown Into a Burning House. London. Tho ofllclal prcsB bureau, acting for tho Uolglan legation In London, Lon-don, has mado public tho second report re-port of tho Uolglan commission appointed ap-pointed to lnqulro Into nlleged German atrocities at Louvaln and in tho district dis-trict uround Mnllncs. This report reviews Incidents heretofore here-tofore generally reported, but it adds tho documents and evidence on which its conclusions rest. It will bo published pub-lished In duo course. The commission finds that on entering enter-ing Louvaln tho Germans requisitioned food nnd lodging. German troops took possession of tho cash in all tho Louvaln banks, burst open houses and pillaged and committed other excesses. excess-es. The report then relates with considerable con-siderable detail two alleged instances In which women were outraged by Gorman soldiers, and asserts that thcro havo been Instances where women wom-en and children havo been stabbed with bayonets and their legs cut off. Ono case Is cited whero a workman, covered with kerosene, was thrown Into n burning houso. Of tho burning of Iouvnln, tho report re-port Bays: "Everything tonds to prove that German regiments, through mistake, llred at ono another. At once the Ger. mans brgan bombarding the town, pre tending that civilians had fired on tholr troops, a suggestion denleu ty all witnesses." To spread tho lire In Louvaln. tho report charges, Germans entered houses nnd threw hand grenades. |