Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1914 — BELGIANS REACH N. Y. [ARTICLE]

BELGIANS REACH N. Y.

TO TELL WILSON OF ALLEGED GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Commission Appointed by King of Belgium Is Composed of Minister of Justice and High Officials.

New York, SepL 11. —Bringing the king of Belgium’s commission which will place before President Wilson accounts of alleged German atrocities in Belgium and of Germany’s violation of Belgium’s neutrality, the White Star liner Celtic arrived at quarantine. She will dock her 1,901 passengers today. Some of these corroborated reports that large numbers of Russian troops had been passing through England on their way to Continental Europe. The Belgian commission is composed of M. Henry Carton de Wiart, minister of justice in the Belgian cabinet and envoy extraordinary of the king; Messrs, de Sadeleer, Hymans and Van de Welde, ministers of state, and Count Louis de Lichtervelde, secretary. In a statement it said: “The mission conveys to President Wilson an autograph letter of his majesty, which it will present to the president at his convenience. Pending their reception by the Tresid&nt, the members of the mission will not feel at liberty to respond as fully as they would wish to the interest manifested by the press and the public.

“The members of the mission are glad to reach the land of the great American commonwealth. This nation, neutral in the great war which desolates Europe, is for that reason particularly able to judge the existing conditions in Belgium and the reason of its heroic struggle for its national honot and the liberty of its people.”