THE ZABERN INCIDENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15970, 13 January 1914, Page 5

THE ZABERN INCIDENT

FINDING OF THE COUET MARTIAL. TRIUMPH FOR THE ARMY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, January 11. Heix Mandel, Under-secretary of State for the Interior, replying to a question in the Alsace-Lorraine Diet, admitted that while the court martial was sitting in uVrasburg a squadron of Hussars was in readiness to act if the • civil authorities requested intervention by the Government. He hoped that the sound common sense of the population would render it unnecessary. In the Prussian Diet, Herr Von Bethmann Hollweg (the Imperial Chancellor) declared that great satisfaction had been caused to him by the way the Prussians tok it to heart when the honour of the army was touched. He said he had rereived niany letters of approval of the finding of the Court from all classes of people.

PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, January 11. The Observer's Berlin correspondent states that Berlin and Prussia are North Gorman to the core, and the bulk of public opinion approves of the army's triumph Many regard Alsace-Lorraine as the enemy of the Empire^ The Liberal and Radical newspapers vigorously protest, and some quote the Kaiser's threat to smash Alsace-Lorraine to atoms. They declare that the court martial case now saved him- that trouble, but they add that the Zabern affair ha 3 not ended yet.