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Show oo CLAIMS PARIS MOBS MURDERED GERMANS New York, Aug 24. It will never be known how many Germans were killed In Paris during the three-day ' riots of July 30 and 31 and August 1. The crimes of that period, could they but become known, would shame the civ ilized world ' This statement was made today by I Henry M Seigler. a Cincinnati million" I aire, who has made his home in Paris ! for the last five years, but fled with i the American refugees and returned on , steamship La France. Describing the I scenes in Paris during the three days ! of rioting before martial law was de-j de-j clared, Mr. Seigler said: "It was unsafe for any foreigner, ! particularly one who could not speak French, to vo on the streets For a German It was little short of suicidal. "I saw one German driving down a boulevard with a woman in a cab. How the mob learned he was a tier-man tier-man I do not know, but they upset the cab The woman fainted and was trampled on, hut someone finally dragged her away. "The man made a gallant fight for his life. With his back to the overturned over-turned cab, he fought desperately fur several minutes, and he w'as a big fellow, too. He struck out with his ! fists, right and left, and bowled over his assailants as fast as they got within with-in reach But he was finally overpowered over-powered and stabbed to death by the mob incidents of this kind were frequent fre-quent occurrences. The mobs would gather in front of the newspaper offices of-fices and read the bulletins and as it began to get dark they started out hunting Germans. "Every shop over which there appeared ap-peared a German name was wrecked At frequent points along the boulevards boule-vards were shops with the windows broken and the interior looking as though a bomb had been exploded there In other quarters of tiie city-even city-even buildings were torn down." |