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Show DUTCH PAPERS . PLAYJIP STORY Account of Murder of British Steamship Crow and ; Kaiser's Pastoral Letter. 1 CHRISTIAN ACTS URGED Hand of God Recognized in Protection of Germany From Invasion. AMSTERDAM. Aug. 7. Dutch newspapers news-papers print in a parallel column with an account of the murder' of tho crew of the British steamship, Belgian Prince, a' Berlin telegram giving the following extract from a pastoral letter let-ter read in all the Protestant churches of Berlin last Sunday. "We will comport ourselves as Christians Chris-tians towards our enomles and conduct con-duct the Avar in the future as in the past with humanity and chivalry." The pastoral letter was read at a service which Emperor William and tho German empress attended at the Cathedral. It exhorts the people to humanity, and recognizes the hand of God in the protection from invasion, which tho fatherland has enjoyed. The British steamship Belgian Prince was sunk July 31 by a German submarine. According to survivors who reached a British port, the U-boat shelled the vessel and the German commander then ordered the crew to take to the boats and go alongside tho submarine. The Germans, the survivors sur-vivors assert, removed the life belts and lifeboats with axes, and' then reentered re-entered the submarine and closed the hatches, leaving the men on deck. The submarine traveled on the surface for about two miles and then submerged. Thirty-jeight of. the crew were drowned. Three o'thers were rescued by a patrol pa-trol boai..-. , - |