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Show uu OF ATROCITIES Sent Long Answer to German White Book But Has Received Re-ceived No Reply From German Authorities. Havre, Jan. 10, 5.30 a. m. The Bel-gian Bel-gian official press bureau gave out the following official note today: "Monsignor Heylon, bishop of Na-mur, Na-mur, Belgium, who is passing through Switzerland on his way to Rome, confirms con-firms the previous statement that he wrote a long answer to the German white book (concerning allegations of German atrocities in Belgium) and sent It to General von Bising, German military governor of Belgium, to foreign for-eign diplomats and consuls in Bel-glum, Bel-glum, to the Vatican and to the Belgian Bel-gian episcopate. He did this in No-yombor. No-yombor. "More recently Cardinal Mercier (primate of Belgium) together with the bishops of Namur, Liege and Tournai, addressed a letter to the German Ger-man episcopate asking that it intervene inter-vene with tho imperial government to obtain an inquiry into charges of German Ger-man atrocities in Belgium. This letter has not been answered." Bishops Send Collective Letter. Paris, Jan. 10. 4:40 a. m. "The bishops of Belgium havo sent a collective col-lective letter to Austrian and German Jblshops replying to denials by the prelates pre-lates of the two empires that the allegations alle-gations reporting German atrocities .ire authentic." says the Rome corre spondent of the Petit Parislen. The Belgian bishops who signed tho letter affirm that they themselves conducted conduct-ed an Investigation, village by village, which demonstrated that the report of the official Belgian committee underestimated under-estimated the facts of anything. "To cut short the controversy they proposed tho formation of a court composed of an equal number of Belgian Bel-gian bishops, Austrian and German bishops and neutral prelates. Such a court could see and judge what the Germans actually did jn Belgium. "This letter was written on November No-vember 28 and thus far has not been answered." I |