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Show No Compulsory Military Service London, Aug. 26. In the commons Premier Asqulth declared that the Belgian government was taking stepi to get the established facts ot Get-man Get-man atrocities as related In the state ment' given out yesterday by the Belgian Bel-gian minister here, to the knowledge of the whole civilized world. The opponents of compulsory military mili-tary servlco In Great Britain momentarily momen-tarily raised their heads In tho house of commons today, but the premier reassured them. Ho said thero 'Vnsi no Intention' ot introducing this system. sys-tem. He added, howover, that Secretary Secre-tary of War Kitchener needed all tho recruits he could get. It was a great mlstnke to think, Premier Asqulth declared, that Great Britain wanted only 100,000 men. The rush of tne miin Russian army toward the For tress of Posen ,ln the German prov ince ot Posen, It true, Is regarded here ns the sensational news of the day. It might account for the Germans Ger-mans falling back' In eastern Prussia. The report that the French have abandoned their positions In Alshce has not been confirmed, although It is labeled as official by the news ng-ency ng-ency which carrlod it. Other versions of the same'offlclal statement oo not contain this reference and tho Fren! embassy today declared that It knew, nothing ot the matter. t |