GERMAN MILITARY SENSATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1922, 3 December 1913, Page 7

GERMAN MILITARY SENSATIONS.

ZABERN THE MORNING AFTER, FROM COAL CELLARS TO THE TRIBUNAL. PRISONERS SET FREE* By Telesraph-PrcPs AspocSation-Copyrieht Berlin, December 1. Un the morning following the sens<ilional incidents at Zabeni (in Alsace J.'onaine), the prisoners, who hud been coiiimcd in tho barracks coaUellars ah night, were inarched, guarded bv soioiers with fixed bayonets, to tho Civil Jribunal, which discharged them. ■lno municipality passed a resolution protesting against Colonel Von Neuter s open contempt of the law, and his provqcalivo proceedings. The resolution was ionvarded to llerr Iletlniianii Hollwe- (Imperial Chancellor), members of the German JliniMry. tho StaUhidtcr (or Governor) of the lieiciislaml (AlsaceLorraine), and tho President of the, KoielistKii.

While "i-lerr Rptlmmmi Holhve."-. in his reply, promised strict iiivestin-a-tions, with w-drcss if the law was found to liavo been broken, the Minister for Vynr slated that, all necessary instructions had been forwarded to tlm responsible military authorities at Strasburg. Latest reports state that tlio Government lias sent a Commissioner from btrasburg to investigate, and that, moreover, the police at Ziibcm have open reinforced to prevent further possibility of military action in the event of disturbances. ..'.'.

Iho press, loprosoiitalivo of all partics m tho Rcichslaml, is unanimous against tlie notion of iho inilitnry authorities. Tlio latter are anxious to maintain their ground lost tho Imperial authority in the Reiclislaud might suffer.

A Conservative represented . Zaberu iu tlio German R.cichf.tag .for., many years, anil the present deputy is a Progressive Liberal; hcuee the popnlation cannot he described, as National-

ists, Three thousand Socialists at Mulhausen_. including two members 6f - the Reichstag, passed a resolution protesting against the military's-conduct at Zabcrn,' and threatening a general strike if tlio military dictatorship in Alsace was not terminated shortly. KAISER INQUIRING, ■ (Roe. December,^,"'lo.4o .p.in.)'.' . Berlin, "December 2. It is reported that 'the lva'i'scr iu inquiring into tlio Zaberp affair. Tlie protesters threaten a ■universal suspension of work in Alsace-Lorraine. Count do AVetlelj I \ilw '■' ' Stasllibldor,, admits that tlie military .authorities were wronsj in taking tho action thev did. MODERATE TONE OF THE PRESS'. London, Dec-umber 1. The noivspapers of France and Gormany treat the Xabern incidents as in nowise a question of • nationalities, but' simply one between.-Iho military, authorities and civilians. Gctmairand English newspapers eulo-, giso the praiseworthy reticence on tho part- of responsible' French organs, ■