"WHIPPING GERMANS."

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 5

"WHIPPING GERMANS."

FANTASTIC STORIES OF "HOR-

RORS" AT RiABAUL

EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY,

London, Jan. 24

Stories of the public whipping of Germans at Rabaul have deeply excited people in Germany, where the punishment is regarded as one of the greatest horrors of the war. The Wolff News Bureau officially announces that the Australian Government .disapproved of the Administrator's action, a.nd ordered that whipping should not occur under any circumstances, while the British Government termed the action, incorrect. It states that the Administrator has" received an official warning, and that meanwhile the German Government is demanding complete satisfaction and adequate punishment of the officers responsible. Negotiations are said to be proceeding, but Australia's great distance is retarding progress.

Count Reventlow violently protests against allowing the subject to drop, stating that the official whipping of Germans is no more an "incident" than the Baralong "murders." It is the action, he declares, of the English system tinder which everything German and all Germans must 'be murdered, dishonoured^ degraded,, and robbed. ' .''These outbursts■ are specially amusing, in view of the fact that General

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Holmes has been promoted to be tern* -pdrarry commander of the Second Aus-* tralian Division, v ; :