BELGIANS COURT-MARTIALLED
CROSSING DUTCH FRONTIER. Amsterdam, January 11. The Governor-General of Belgium (Genera! von Bissing) lias issued a decree which states that one hundred Belgians, some armecT, attempted to cross the Dutch frontier, by force. Thirtyseven were arrested and court-martial-led. Thirty were sentenced to death, and four youths to fifteen years imprisonment. The Governor-General, ill commuting the. death sentences to lifo servitude, says' lie did 'so. 'Vecauso the offenders liad not realised the gravitv of flicir offence. Ho warns the puljlic that no mercy will bo sliown in cases of repetition of the offence. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 9
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97BELGIANS COURT-MARTIALLED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 9
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