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Show I BERLIN WIRELESS HERALDS I I SUCCESSES ON BOTH FRONTIERS til ,: ' ' I i Reports Also Alleged Atrocities Commit-! Commit-! ted by French and Riiiwni ; . 1 . . ' tl I : Washington, Sept. 8. The? Oer- . ' man embassy received a wireless to- ! day from Berlin announcing that I German and Austrian troops have oc- '. ' ' ! . cupled Lodz, tho largest manufactur- ' i lng center In Russian Poland, and I ) ,. thht the battle northward from Lem- ; .: I berg Is continuing. ) ; I Tho message also said: I , '' Tho report Is confirmed that th . 1 : French abducted fourteen women and ! j twenty-five children from a German ' i'Mi, frontlet place: also a hospital doc- i MM; tor and assistant from Lorchlngcn. 1 J Fate unknown." I I' "The papers are full of Russian -tf r horrors la But PruMtew The Russians Rus-sians cut 'eft the breaatvof, aether and Impaled bf'Terc4iH4rmj oa a fence. Fosr Cotefccks ratteneA. a woman while ttey haadcufed her husband and forced him to be a witness." wit-ness." Later the German embassy received re-ceived the following wireless 'from Berlin: "The News that German troopB have left Brussels on account of the situation in East Prussia Is wrong. The German administration In Brussels Brus-sels is very active, civil servants arriving ar-riving every 'day fofnewly-organUeo) offices." ,. "The, French official communique that the Russians have completely Invested In-vested Koenigsberg is also a lie. The Russians never covered halt the distance dis-tance between the frontier and Koenigsberg Koe-nigsberg and are now retroaUng east ward after the annihilation of their Narew army. The Gaiettedel Popor laro, a respectable paper calls London a lie factory, comparable with Shanghai Shang-hai during the Russo Japanese war.. "Lord Churchill's declaration that a victorious Germany would seek expansion ex-pansion In South America appears to' be the climax of ridiculous calumny and of an unscrupulous attempt to incite in-cite the friendly nations of both North and South America against the German Ger-man people, while the German press hero, on tho contrary, heartily welcome wel-come tho progress and prosperity ot free American nations. "German soldiers returning from Belgium cruelly .mutilated Increase the German peoplo's exasperation against the rovoltlng atrocities cro-uted cro-uted by Belgian civilians. Enormous excitement has been caused by' ttie Belgians attempt to Induce the world with London and Parte, who are ena-less ena-less liars, as accomplices in tbo be lief that German soldiers aro auUi ors of atrocities. "The socialistic German paper Vort wacrts gives a shocking description ot the wholesale assassination ot Germans at Louvnln. Tho Sirapllcls-simus, Sirapllcls-simus, another publication, sayB "tho namu ot Belgian Is tho worst insult that could bo inflicted on civilized man. "Germnns took 4000 Bclglim prls oners at Liege, according to personal letters received today by Representative Representa-tive Metz of Now ork. "My mail from friends in Germany today," said Mr. Motz, "convinces me that tho second reserves are not yet called out, for I know a number of men In Germany who arp 47 or 48 years old who aro still at ' their work. Tho first line is from 18 to 45 years." |
