GERMERSHEIM AFFRAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 December 1926, Page 5

GERMERSHEIM AFFRAY

APPEAL AGAINST VERDICT

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian A N Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, 23rd Dec* ; ; An appeal lias been lodged against llie Lauda,u verdict acquitting a French lieutenant in connection with the death of a German soldier and the wounding'’ of another German.

ALL GERMANS RELEASED

PARIS, 25th Dec.

President Doumergue has signed a decree remitting all the sentences passed on the six Germans in connection .. with the Germersheim affair. 1 - The release of the Germans sentenced m connection with the Germersheim affair was generally anticipated; The-‘; : “Matin” says that the German Anilias-. sador, Herr von Hoesch, and -General "' Guillaumat interviewed Ministers.. M. .. Painleve informed /Cabinet that General ' l Guillaumat, who is commanding the army on the Rhine, recommended the President of the Republic to exercise his prerogative and pardon the six Germans sentenced at Landau. , i,,,.,.

ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURS

Within an hour of the signature of the pardons a telegram was received from Mayence stating that during Christmas Eve seven drunken Germans attacked and injured t.wo French sol-y diers as they were leaving church after Christmas Mass. This new incident differs from the Germersheim affair, in that the French soldiers, being unarmed, were unable lo resist the superior number of aggressors. who escaped in the darkness.’.,; It is believed here that even in . Germany this cannot appear otherwise than as an unfortunate sequel to the clemency the French have shown, and as a justification for the Sentences given iti connection with the Germersheim affair.

("Sun’’ Cable.)

PARIS, 26tii Dee.

It is reported from Mainz that white a party of French soldiers was leaving church after Midnight Mass, it was attacked, and two wounded by seven drunken Germans without provocation.