"RAGGING" IN THE GERMAN ARMY
OUTBURST OF PUBLIC INDIGNATION. By Telesriiiili—Press Association—Copyrlelit Bsrlln, May 17. Public indignation forced tho retrial o? two'troopers of cuirassiers at Potsdam; who had been sentenced to six and threo weeks' imprisonment respectively Tor breaking into tho recruits' dormitory. They hounded tho recruits out of their beds at tho point of tho sword, forced one to kneel naked on a table and another to climb on to a cupboard and sing a hymn. Six recruits are in hospital suffering from sword wounds. Ono was slashed across the chest. Tho court-martial has now increased the sentences b>- 50 per cent.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140519.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103"RAGGING" IN THE GERMAN ARMY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in