The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
SAYS THE news
IS NOT TRUE
German Ambassador Claims
Victories Over Germans
Have Not Occurred
in Europe.
REPLY TO THE R
eeIslans Are Accused Of Brutality by
German Newspaper,
Just Reaching
Here.
REPLY TO THE R

L UulleQ HISSS LcdSeu VINE 0SiSASS'J
NEW YORK, Aug. 2e.-"News Of
victories over Germany will continue
just as long as the origin Of the newts
remains as at present. The news Of
victories over Germany is az wrong
as the stories of German cruelty"
So declared Ambassador Won Bern
storff here today. He had no news
from Germany and described himself
as the one man who might give the
American people the truth in the Eu-
ropean war-if he were moi isolated.
"a, : do not blame our enemies for
cutting the cable and for their cam.
spaiar Of. Misrepresentation in this
country" he said. "They are deceiv.
ing the American people. There 10
no German news.
NATURALLY. al much as anybody
else regret the fact that civilians,
women and children have been kill.
ed on various occasions. But a civil.
liam population that remain in fort
resses when they are besieged which
Joins in battle and which attacks SOL
diers-has always had to suffer the
consequences in every war OF the
past.
81 have no German news; ! have
been unable to get any.
~ read in the American papers TO-
day that the English government is
sending code messages to Japan via
the United States"
The ambassador refused further to
comment on this last staten ent. 1t
was apparent, however, that it refer
red to the present claim Of the Ger
man government that under the Amer
ican neutrality proclamation Germany
should have the right to use the wire
less for code messages since the pow
ers at war with her had the cables.
REPLY TO CHARGES. g.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2e.-RepIyins to
the charges of ~inhumanity on the
part Of. Germans in the war toward
eeloians, the German consul general
here today issued the following state
ment: .
The behavior Of Belgian civilians,
rome as we'll as men, toWard Ger
mar soldiers and the German hospital
CORPS is best set forth in the koeInis-
che Zeitung, one Of the leading news.
papers in Germany which has just
reached here. It carries the follow
ina from a noted German army sur.
aeon: "Here in Belgium we exper-
fenced treatment by the Belgian civil
lisns, men. women n half grown
boy which we never experienced be-
fore, even while fighting the negroes
In our colonies. Civilians shot from
every house. from every bush. In the
first few days many Of our men we're
wounded or killed by civilians snip
ino from everywhere the women
were as active as were the men.
"Day before yesterday eelsians
killed a German by cutting his throat
while he was asleep in a house. A
house used by US as a hospital was
flying the Red Cross flag. In the
evening we put there ~ wounded
German soldiers. The next morning
all five were found stabbed to death.
Yesterday morning while passing
Though a small village near VIEWERS
we found one Of Jul soldiers with his
hands tied behind his back and his
eyes put out. In another village one
car of our automobile corps had stop
ped in front of a house. Suddenly a
young oma stepped up to the chauf-
feur, drew a pistol and shot him dead.
At Gemmech. an hour from Ak La
ChappeIe, where we arrived Wednes-
day, the townspeople fired upon an
automobile hospital corps from every