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File No. 763.72116/57

The Minister in Belgium, (Whitlock) to the Secretary of State

Antwerp, undated.
[Received September 29, 1914, 1:45 p.m.]

[Telegram]

The time has not come and the occasion will not permit me to report on the excesses of German soldiers in Belgium. While there may have been exaggerations in the published stories, they are in spirit true and at a later date I shall make a comprehensive report on this dreadful subject.

Whitlock