GERMAN ATROCITIES
WAR-TIME EPISODE ENEMY OFFICER SENTENCED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, July 23. (Received July 24, at 12.45 p.m.) At Amiens a court martial passed tho death sentence in contumacium on a German soldier (Lieutenant-colonel Waeclitei')j one of the alleged war criminals, for murder and arson. Waechter was town major as Esqueharies on the Aisne in 1914 when a French soldier was found hidden in a farmhouse. The Frenchman was shot without a trial, the farm burned, and the farmer’s wife imprisoned. Eleven British soldiers found hiding in another farm were shot, together with the farmer, whose family was imprisoned and the farm burned. Another Frenchwoman (Madame Logoz) who hid thirty-five British soldiers and afterwards helped them to escape, was shut in an iron case and subsequently sentenced to hard labor, while her mill was burned. —Renter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 8
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137GERMAN ATROCITIES Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 8
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