WAR CRIMINALS’ TRIAL
CHARGE OF ILL-TREATING BRITISH PRISONERS. Leipzig, May 24. ®he first case at: tho war criminal trial at Leipzig was against Heyner, a Landwehr corporal. Heyner was accused of ill-treating British prisoners at Herne Camp, in Westphalia, because they refused to work in the coal mines. Evidence was given that he struck the prisoners with tho butt end of his rifle, and put them under cold water for an hour. Heyner denied this, saying that two or three refused to work, "I had to be severe, in order to show that my orders must be obeyed.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5
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100WAR CRIMINALS’ TRIAL Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5
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