WAR CRIMES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 5

WAR CRIMES

CHARGE AGAINST GENERAL

»V O-Bliß—-BESS ASSOCIATION—COPVRIOHT LEIPZIG, July 3. Giving evidence at the Supreme Court, Dr. Wengel said that after the battle of Saarburg in 1914 he took over the medical charge of two wounded French prisoners, but a corporal informed him'later that they had beer shot by the order of Major Crusius The authorities are attempting to shou that Major Crusius .is mentally deficient, with a view to rebutting his statement that Lieut.-General Stengel ordered the execution of the prisoners.

[This concerns the trial of Lieut.General Stengel, whom the French charge with issuing an order to slaugh.; ter wounded and unwoiinded prisoners, j and Major Crusius, charged with shooting prisoners. Stengel denied killing prisoners, but admitted that he told the troops to deal with Frenchmen who pretended death and thefri (fired on Germans from trees and the ground in the rear, but he never embodied the words in a formal order.]