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Show BR'Kf FINE I City Refuses to Be Fined by H Germans for Celebrating National Serious ! Crisis Expected. ' London, Aug. 4, 6 p. m. The city H of Brussels has refused to pay the H fine of 5,000,000 marks imposed by H the Germans in consequence of the .M demonstration which took place at the Belgian capital on July 21, the national fete day, says a dispatch from The Hague to the Exchange Telegraph company. A serious crisis M is expected. Acting Burgomaster Lemmonler, the despatch adds, has sent a letter to General von BIsing, the German gov-ernor gov-ernor of Belgium, flatly declining to pay the fine. He says it wns imposed on the public because of Its patriotic sentiment and therefore is illegal and Inadmissalblc. nn |