TRIAL OF WAR CRIMINALS
ACQUITTALS AT LEIPZIG
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
LEIPZIG, July 11. General von Shack, and von Kruska charged with causing the deaths of French prisoners in 1918, at Nieder Znrhren, have been acquitted. The French witnesses have been withdrawn. An Alsatian interpreter testified that precautions were not taken to prevent the spread of spotted typhus introduced by verminous Russians. Von Shack proved that he was not responsible and Kruska pleaded that it was then not known that vermin carried the disease. Ho was ordered to mix the prisofiers for the purposes of local labour. He personally was not responsible. Doctors treated victims for bronchitis. Several attendants on the doctors’ personnel died from the same disease'.
FRENCH WITH DRAW AL LONDON, July 11. Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said that France’s action in withdrawing from the. Leipzig trials was taken without consulting Britain.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 12 July 1921, Page 5
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