A PRECISE PRUSSIAN

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5883, 10 April 1920, Page 2

A PRECISE PRUSSIAN

BRITISH BEATEN FOR NOT SALUTING HIM. AN ESSEN INCIDENT.

1 United Service Telegrams > ' (Received ArA 10. 9.25 a.in.) NEW YORK, April 0. The Chicago Tribune's Dusseldorf correspondent states that Lieutenant Ljnz- • meyer, a ollicer of the Baltic Iron Division, on arriving at Essen secured telegrams despatched to England by Mrs Harding, representative of the Daily News, and Mr Voight, representative of "Jie Manchester Guardian. Lihzmeyer arrested both. Mr Voight kept liis hands in his pockets when airesiod, and Lieutenant Jinzmeyor ordered tw'o soldiers-to bea,t him hi order to teach him how to behave in. the presence ct Prussjfia officers. Both were subsequently released. Mr Voight says that Linzmeyer resented th-3 putb'tiulo of tlio Anglo-America.il correspondents regarding Ruhr. Mrs Harding states that shs drew attention to the fact that Linzmeyer's trtoops were identical with thosa il.ivolvcd in the Kapps coup, thereby angering Linzmeyer.

The correspondent adds tiint the Baltic troops have begun a reign of terror, killing women and workers.