HUNS WHIPPED AT RABAUL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2678, 26 January 1916, Page 5

HUNS WHIPPED AT RABAUL

EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Asrociation—Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. January 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 24. The puh|ic whipping of Germans at Rabaul, New Guinea, has deeply excited Germany, whero it is regarded as one of the greatest horrors of tho war. - The Wolff Bureau officially announces fb'af the Australian Government disapproved of the Administrator's action, and ordered that this should not be allowed to occur under any circumstances. The British Government termed the action as "incorrect," and the -Administrator received an official warning. Meanwhile the German, Government is demanding complote satisfaction, and the adequate punishment of the officers responsible. Negotiations are proceeding, but .Australia's great distance is retarding them. Count- Reventlov? (the German publicist) violently protests against the subject being allowed to drop. He states that the offioial whipping of Germans is 'no more an incident than the Baralong murders, and is tho outcome of the English system' that everything German, and all Germans, should be murdered, dishonoured, degraded, and robbed."

These outbursts are specially amusing in view of tho fact that BrigadierGeneral Holmes (the former Administrator) has been promoted to temporal-} command of the Second Australian Division.

[Th© above message probably refers to an incident which was mentioned in a cablegram from Sydney of December 14, 1914, in which it was stated that "six German prisoners, accused of beating the Rev. Mr. Cox, had arrived in Sydney. Colonel Holmes, the military commander, captured the prisoners at Mamatani, New Ireland, and took thorn to Rabaul, where they were tried and punished. Another incident to which the above message may-refer was connected with the punishment of some Germans who had been accuscd and found guilty of boating natives.]