“RAGGING” IN GERMANY
PUBLIC INDIGNATION AROUSED. 9/ Telegraph—Praia Aomoclallon—CopjrlgM BERLIN. May 17. Public indignation forced the retrial of two troopers of cuirassiers at Potsdam, who had been sentenced to six and three weeks’ imprisonment respectively for breaking into the recruits’ dormitory. They hounded tha recruits out of their beds at the point of the sword, forced one to kneel naked on a table and another to climb on to a cupboard and sing a hymn. Six recruits are in hospital suffering from sword wounds. One was slashed across the chest. The court-martial has now increao od the sentence by 50 per cent.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 5
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