WAR CRIMES.
MURDER AND ARSON
GERMAN OFFICER, CONDEMNED
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received July 24] 2.10 p.m. PARIS, July 23. A court-miar'tial at Amiens passed a death, sentence in eonturnacium on a German, Lieutenant-Colonel Waeehter, one of the alleged war criminals, for murder and arson. Waeehter was town mayor at, Elsiqueheriesi on the Aine in 1914, when French soldiers were found hidden in a farm. The . Frenchman; was shot without trial and .his farmhouse (burned and the farmer’s wife wa,s imprisoned. Eleven British soldiers who were found hiding m another farm were" shoct along with the farmer, whose family was imprisoned and his farmhouse burned. Another Frenchwoman, Madame Logez, who hid thirty-five British soldiers and afterwards helped them to escape, was shut w in an iron cage and subsequently sentenced to hard labour, while her mill was burned. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 July 1925, Page 9
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