WAR CRIMINALS’ TRIAL
TWO GENERALS ACQUITTED BY LEIPZIG COURT FRENCH WITNESSES WITHDRAWN By Telegraph—'Press Association —Copyright (Rec. July 11, 5.5 p.m.) Leipzig, July 11. Generals von Shack and von Kruska, charged with causing the deaths of French prisoners in 1915 at Nieder-Zweh-ren, have been acquitted. French witnesses had l>een withdrawn. An Alsatian interpreter testified that precautions were not taken to prevent the spread of spotted typhus, introduced by verminous Russians. Von Shack proved that he was not responsible. Kruska pleaded that it was then not known that vermin carried disease. He was ordered to mix prisoners for purposes of local labour. He personally was not responsible. Doctors treated the victims for bronchitis. Several attendants on the doctors’ personnel died of the same disease. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 6
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