DR LIEBKNECHT FREED.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1917, Page 6

DR LIEBKNECHT FREED.

CHUMAN .SOCIALIST LHADHU WAS VHUV ILL IN IMMSUN.

Dr. Karl Liebkneeht, Socialist Leader in the Herman Keiehstag, who was arrested in connection with the May Lav demonstrations in Berlin in 1D l (', was liberated in August by the Cerntaia (lovcrnment through '’fear that he might, die in prison, says a despatch from Baris u> New A<uk. He i s said to be suffering from tuberculosis. lie weighs, only SI pounds. The authenticity of the above

K ,eemsi certain, says 1 lie Paris, Temps s (leneva. correspondent, at though the (Herman newspapers; in obedience to orders have kept silent regarding it. “The news." says the correspondent, ‘ : wa M In might here hy a Hollander, who had just arrived from Germany. He savs; the trades union organisations iirought pressure on the Overnjuent for the release of Hr. Liehkneeht, who is now in a. private hospital and is not expected to recover, suffering, in addition to the lung malady, from mental depression, the result of inhuman treatment while in

prison. Dr. Liebknecht was tried by courtmartial Jn. Berlin for “military treason" and sentenced to four years and one month in prison. A court-mar-tial at Thorn also is said to have sentenced Dr. Liebknecht to four and ahalf years at hard labor, charging that, he had attempted- to ibcite the soldiers of the Thorn garrison to disobedience and rebellion.