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Observer

Thursday, August 20

Many authenticated instances of German army's brutality in Belgium and Alsace: burning villages and shooting old men, women and children. They are laying waste the villages on their trek through Belgium.

Official statement that British Force is not in Franco-Belgian fighting line. All rumours of British killed in Belgium and the dead seen with Belgian and French soldiers on the battlefield must be therefore false, though they are freely asseverated in buses, etc...

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