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Show COMMISSION SS NOW DISCREDITED LONDON, Oct. 23. Via Montreal. The Daily News says that tho commission com-mission of neutral residents of Brussels, Brus-sels, which is to investigate charges of unnecessary devastation and destruction de-struction during tho German retreat In Belgium, will be under tho direction of Baron von der Lancken, civil governor gov-ernor of Brussels. "The selection of von der Lancken is extraordinary," says the News, I "when it is recalled that he played a leading role In the murder of Edith Cavolle. It was von dor Lancken who ignored the representations of the. American minister, Brand Whitlock, and refused to allow Miss Cavelle to receive a visit from a Belgian lawyer." AMSTERDAM, Oct. 23 The com mission which is investigating charges of devastation and destruction during : the German retreat In Belgium under the direction of Baron von der Lancken Lanck-en is composed as follows: Marquis of Villalobar, the Spanish minister to Belgium; M. Van Volen-hoven, Volen-hoven, the Dutch minister; M. Langen-burg, Langen-burg, Dutch representative on the Belgian Bel-gian relief commission; M. Van Bree, a Belgian, and Senor Saura, a Spaniard. Span-iard. oo |