GERMAN BRUTALITIES
INVESTIGATION BY FRENCH COURTMARTIAL SENTENCES ON OFFICERS By Telegraph-Press Assooiatton--CoDyrieh.t Paris, September 27. Brutalities committed by German officers during the occupation of Lille have been the subject of investigation by a French court-martial, which imposed heavy sentences ii> spite of the accused men having kept out of the jurisdiction of the Courts. A lieutenant was sentenced to imprisonment for life for desecration of graves, thefts, and imprisoning a girl who had repeatedly rejected his advances. Another lieutenant was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for killing a priest and throwing his body into a coal-hole; a major received a sentence of five years' imprisonment for Hogging old men and women, and two were sentenced to twenty years each for robbery. Thero are several other cases.—lteuter.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 3, 29 September 1920, Page 8
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126GERMAN BRUTALITIES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 3, 29 September 1920, Page 8
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