GERMAN “JUSTICE."

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11762, 24 February 1919, Page 4

GERMAN “JUSTICE."

Lieutenant H. Wookey who, with Lieutenant Scholtz, was sentenced by the Germans to 10 years’ imprisonment in April last for dropping leaflets from the air, has returned to Knovrla, Bristol. He describes rhe trial as a farce. The whole of the proceedings were condnoted in German except the statement in which the prosecuting counsel asked that Lient. Wookey and his companion should he shot. The British Government threatened reprisals, and the Prisoners of War Department selected two German air officers of high family and prepared to imprison them. This gat once changed the attitude of the German authorities, and Lieut. Wookey and Lieut. Scholtz were released after being kept in solitary confinement for 15 days.