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Show oo BURNING OF CITY BREST-LITOVSK German Troops Encounter Nothing But Ruins, Smoke and Flames. Berlin, Aug 31, by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. The Overseas News agency today to-day says: "The special correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung on the eastern front gives a description of the burning burn-ing of Brest-Litovsk, picturing tho scene as one 'ghastly, senseless ' The entire space between outer forts and the center of the town had been laid waste, and ruins upon ruins wore encountered. en-countered. The market place was a scene of chaos. The factory district dis-trict was filled with blackened heaps of masonry and a melee of metal debris de-bris In the midst of which crumbling chimneys belched forth smoke and flame. The railroad tracks were covered cov-ered with ruins of demolished cars, while perishing cattle wandered nearby. near-by. The blue dome of the principal church, with its glittering gold cross, was destroyed. The town yesterday sheltered 50,000 Inhabitants. "A newspaper dispatch from Petro-grad Petro-grad says that tho evacuation of Vil-najs Vil-najs being c.ontinued, thousands of. people leaving the city." Refugees from the Kovno district, who have reached Petrograd, tell of their homes being reduced to smoking ruins by Russian soldiers Feverish energy, tho dispatch states, is being displayed in the manufacture or munitions, and students in technical schools have been added to forces working on munitions mu-nitions production The question as to whether the Germans intend an advance on Petrograd beginning with the seizure of Riga as a naval base, Is being discussed, it is added. "It is pointed out that the equipment equip-ment of the German army in Courland indicates preparation for operations on an extensive scale " |