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Show oo GERMAN EMBASSY STATEMENT DENIED Washington, Scpt 27 The French embassy made public the following communication today: "The French government has been informed that th" German government govern-ment officially alleges that the bom bardment of the Rhelms cathedral (first denied and now openly acknowledges acknowl-edges by its authors) had been caused by a French post of observation bavin;: bav-in;: been established on the cathedral. cathe-dral. "A telegram of General Joffre to the minister of war shows that the destruction was, as stated before, without the shadow of an excuse. The tc-ltKram is as follows: "The fifth (French) army had occupied oc-cupied Rhelms until the eighteenth of September ami then was relieved by the ninth. Both declare they es tablished no post of observation on tho cathedral, the systematic bom bardment of which began on tho nineteenth nine-teenth at 3 p. m " |