LESE MAJESTE.
Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.
Received June 20, 8.40 a.m. BERLIN, June 19.
The Court of Appeal at Leipzig, in confirming a six months' sentence on a Socialist editor, extended the law oi leee maieste to attempts to deprecate or briqg into contempt the ruling king's ancestors.
The editor pleaded that his words were merely historical criticism.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11897, 20 June 1906, Page 5
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58LESE MAJESTE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11897, 20 June 1906, Page 5
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