Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-10
PRESERVE
PICTURES
At L0UvA|N
AMERICAN WAR CORES
PONDENTS DENY REPORT
OF GERMAN BRUTALITY
DUM-DUM BULLETS SHOWN
Kaiser's Forces Are Now En-
trenched in Russian Terri
tory. '
THE KAISER PROTESTS.

Washington, Sept. 9.-The pres
ident received personal cable
gram from Emperor William, pro.
testing against the use by tho
allied les Of dunn dunn bullets,
and participation in the, war by
civilians Of Belgium. The mes
sage expressed the emperor's
deep regret at the destruction Of
the Belgian city Of Louvain.
my heart bIeeds for Louvain,"
is one Of the phrases the emperor
is understood to have used. He
declared, however, that the popu-
Iation Of Belgium offered such re.
sistance to his generals in many
cases that it was found necessary
to administer severe punishr ent.
The contents Of the message are
closely guarded.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 9.-The
German embassy received this wire
less from Berlin today:
"The Breslau Silesian Landwehr
has captured seventeen officers and
a thousand men all of the Russian
Imperial guard The place, Of. the
encounter Is not given. The first
embassy believed the guard had been
captured at Brelau, but a study of the
dispatch convinced. officials it referr-
ed to capture by the Lndwehr from
Breslau and Silesia.
Says French Hope Vanishing.
The message adds:
"The Frankfurter Zeitung reports
that the German officers, while Lou
vain was burning, brought pictures
from the cathedral to the town hall
for protection.
"A paper a. Turin reports the
French confidence in its general staff
had vanished. The Parisians know
that France is flooded with the wound
ed, and that great many members
of its army are prisoners"
1t adds that a German war loan
has been announced and one billion
in treasury bills has been issued. An
unlimited state loan at five percent
has been given out at 97.5.
Americans Are Detained.
''In AK La Chapelle, five American
reporters were detained, who follow
ed the German army through Belgium
secretly .,Ghder great difficulties. They
were fI7. Of indignation against the
Belgian lies, and praise the humane
conduct of the German troops.
Show Dunn Dunn Bullets.
Yesterday at the foreign office, in
Berlin, dunn dunn bullets in original
package, among them parcels with an
English stamp, were shown to thirty
foreign journalists. They we're point
ed copper projectiles for Lebel rifle
points and deeply nicked on either
side, so as to, break upon an impact.
The package steel-mantelled bullets
are Of later model and in the original
package. They had noses cut square
ly off and holes drilled perpendicu-
larly."
Effect Union With Austrians.
Berlin, Sept. 9.-Major Moraht, the
military critic of Tageblatt, writes:
Yesterdays news that the Silesian
Land wehr had taken a thousand pris-
oners from the Russian and Caucasian
corps, and news from. Vienna that
German troops occupied Radon in
Russian Poland, August 29, together
with earlier reports of the German
occupation of Lodz and Petrikau,
throw a welcome light on hitherto
ignored section of the battlefront.
They indicate the Germans marched
in broad front over. the Silesian and
Posen frintiers, into Russian Poland,
and are in touch with the Austrian
column advancing through Kielce in
Russian Poland and province Dor.
dering Galicia."
Germans Punished BeIdians.
London, Sept. 9.-Marguerite Ust-
terbroick Of Millersville, ILL.,, arrived
in London after an adventurous trip
from Louvain, the burning Of which
she witnessed.
1t is said the first sign of trouble
at Louvain was when two German
soldiers maltreated and killed sew
eral girls. These soldiers prompt
ly were shot by. their own officers.
The Germans, according to Ameri-
cans, made no secret of their deter
mination to make Belgians suffer for
indignities they claimed the German
residents suffered at the hands of |
Beleians at the outbreak of the war.