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Show TWO YANKEKS HELD ! YKAUS IN 11ELGIUM (JAIN THEIR RELEASE Washington, Aug. 31. Persistent efforts of the stato department to secure se-cure tho releaso from Belgium of two Americans, C. C. Clayton of tho West- orn Electric company, nnd Whlpplo of tho Dell Telephone company, com-pany, has been successful, according accord-ing to n report to tho department today to-day from Tho Hague. Tho men havo arrived there from Antwerp, whoro they havo boon do-talned do-talned by Germans since tho first days of the war between the United States and Germany. It has dovol-oped dovol-oped that several of those who had taken out citizenship papers In the United States voluntarily reassumed therr obligations as native born Germans. |
