PERSECUTION IN LIEGE.
EIGHT BELGIANS EXECUTED
INTENSE ANGER AROUSED,
Amsterdam, June 16.
The execution of eight Liege citizens for alleged espionage has produced intense anger. Twenty others are still imprisoned, and there is great anxiety as to their fate. Some relief was afforded by a telegram from the Kaiser, exhibited alongside the list of those executed, stating that in future every court-martial death-sentence must have the Kaiser's sanction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15947, 18 June 1915, Page 8
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