LOCARNO SPIRIT

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 29 December 1926, Page 5

LOCARNO SPIRIT

GERMERSHIEM EPISODE. >___ FRENCH CLEMENCY. ? ■ ■■ ; y ■ ■ / ■ (Received this day. 1.33 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. A Berlin correspondent says that the moderate press greets the pardon granted in the Landau case as a sign that the Locarno policy still lives, but the . Nationalist, papers refuse 'to be satislied, and demand disciplinary measures against Rouzier. The entire press in- ‘ sists that the case proves the necessity for immediate cessation of the occupation of the- Rhineland. ■ ... • - SECOND OUTRAGE. _________ PARIS, December 25. President Doumerguc' this morning signed the pardons of the six German civilians, and within an hour a telegram was received from Mayence stating that during Christmas Eve seven other drunken Germans attacked and. injured two French soldiers as they' w.cre leaving church after Christmas / mass. This incident differs from the Germersheim affair in that the French / soldiers being unarmed were unable to resist the superior number of the aggressors, who escaped in the darkness. A message from Paris, dated the 22nd inst., stated that concerning the Franco-German affray at Germersheim in September, .when two French soldiers collided with several Germans, one. of whom, Mueller, was killed, and another, Mathes, wounded by shots from the French, The court acquitted the French lieutenant, Rouzier, and sentenced Mathes to two years in default and passed minor sentences on five other Germans.