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Show I ARTILLERY USED AGAINST A CITY Last September, the English aviators aviat-ors made an attack on the German military aviation sheds and flying grounds at Brussels, during which a number of civilians were killed and wounded and buildings damaged. The German press and the organs or the (iorman propaganda at once circulated rumors to the effect that these casualties cas-ualties and this damage were due io the unskilful methods of the English aviators, and were not the result of German artillery fire. Since then a quiet investigation has been made by the Belgians and the discovery made that the Germans, during the raid opened an artillery fire on Ihe citv for the purpose of nraging the people who might be made to believe they were being bombarded bom-barded by the air fleet of the allies. From Belgian sources comes this disclosure: It Is now proved that this version does not correspond to the facts; the Belgian government has become possessed pos-sessed of material evidence which confirms the hypothesis that the inhabitants in-habitants of Brussels were the vic- evidence consists of several fragments frag-ments of German projectiles, picked up on the spot on September 27, 1916, and now deposited in the Belgian ministry min-istry of Justice at Havre. Three of the fragments are specially characteristic. charac-teristic. They are splinters of shells found In the house of the Bricoult family, Avenue Georges-Henri, on September Sep-tember 27, 1916. after the raid b the Bnglisb aviators This family was killed The first fragment is a piece of a driving-band, which proves con-elusively con-elusively that the projectile was Nred from a gun. The second and the third are fragments of the aluminum fuses which crown the head of the projectile pro-jectile As a further proof that the projectile was fired by the Germans, it has hern attested that the wall of the garden has a hole made by a shell, at a height of 1 metre 20 centimetres cen-timetres from the ground. This war certainly has degraded a part of Europe's population. The trickery and brutality resorted to at times surpasses anything in modern hlstorj . |