The .Moldavian Government is in possession of uiisian:i:i! evidence Jnf above forty eases of inuv-iev committed by Austrian soldiers in the .principality alone, up to the end ol suinmei, these Climes bein<r most invariably committed in connection with petty thefts. Throughout the tw>> Principalities there is hut one sentiment n( hativvi ami tear of the Austrian soldiery —one mice with rt'g-ant to the brutal conduct of the men am! the reckless t>ehaviniiA)f the officers. A> Prince Ghika is reported to have said '"' There is no discipline in this army. The officers have no power over the men to control them in their excesses'' Yet the oppressed Principalities have M ray for the tyranny which insults and ■crushes them at the rate of seven millions of piaMres a year.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 348, 1 March 1856, Page 6
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