SHOOTING OF PRISONERS.
INADEQUATE SENTENCE. LEIPSIC COURT CRITICISED By Telegraph—Pres* AsßOciadDn Copy*;flit. Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association. (Received July S, 9.30 a.m.) "LEIPZIG, July 7. Major Crusins ha 3 been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twentynine months’ imprisonment and deprived of the right to wear his uniform. Lieutenant-General Stenger was acquitted. A sensation has been caused in French circles. A high judiciary who attended the trial described the sentence as scandalous. Orusius had been proved to have personally murdered. wounded prisoners. The trial of Lieutenant-General Stenger, whom the French charged with issuing an order to slaughter wounded and unwounded prisoners, and of Major Orusius, charged with shooting prisoners, was begun at Leipsiz some days ago. Stenger denied killing prisoners. He admitted that he told his troops to deal with Frenchmen who pretended' death and fired on Germans from trees and the ground in the rear, but never embodied his words in a formal order.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16473, 8 July 1921, Page 7
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