SALUTARY PENALTIES.
GERMAN OFFICERS COURTMARTIALLED. FOR LILLE OUTRAGES. (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 27. Brutalities comimitted by German officers during the occupation of Lille have been the subject of investigation by a French Court-Martial, which imposed heavy sentences, despite the fact that the accused men kept out of the jurisdiction of the court. A lieutenant was sentenced to life imprisonment for
desecration of graves, thefts and, imprisoning a girl who repeatedly rejected his advances. Another was sentenced to live years for telling a priest and throwing the body into a coalhole. A major received a similar term for flogging old men' and women, while terms of two to twenty years' imprisonment each were imposed for j robbery in several other cases. —A. and I N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 28 September 1920, Page 5
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