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Show HOW GERMANS TOOK GENERAL Brave Belgian Commander and Officers Blow Themselves Up in Fort Leman Found in Debris. Paris. Sept 1. 3:20 a. m TIip Ant-i Ant-i sverp correspondent of the Petit Parisian, Pa-risian, gives this explanation of the presence of Generol Leman, the Bel elan commander, at Liege, in Magde i ni is a .rlsoner of war "On August 17 General Leman was summoned by the Germans to surrender sur-render the Liege forts. He refused, hut as the situation wns then desperate, desper-ate, and it was impossible to hold out against another bombardment, he called his officers together In Fort Lonciu and said : "'You have valiant! fought fur your country but the struggle has become be-come impossible and it is foolish to try further Honor has been saved and the hour has come when we must I nate I have decided to die here Loucln shall be my tomb ' "All the officers declared that they would still fight and die with their general. Again the cannon thunder ed and then those in the fort were si lenced alter which a terrible explosion explo-sion took plnce. General Leman and his officers had blown themselves up Alone of all in the fort General Leman Le-man survived and from the debris he v as taken a prisoner to Magdeburg It was on Emperor Williams order that ne was allowed to keep hi. sword." unless some settlement Is reached with the masters of two British mer chantmen now in port here. The Germans are sailors on two vessels and seek their discharge and back pay. August Lorenz, chief steward on hoard the .Muttoppo, alleged to the Lk gal vii Bociety that he has $5o due him and wants his discharge, The i society took up the matter with the ships master, the owners and the British consul, hut all refused redress re-dress so it has libelled the ship Otto Horn and Karl FrauendortJ irho Signed on the Houston liner' Horatlus In Antwerp, AugUBt. 1913. also ask fnr discharges. They say' that they each have $J'H due them on their monthly wages of 125 and that as the crew are mostly Britons. Russians, Danes and Swedes, and! they the only Germans on board, they uant to be free before putting to seal again |