A BERLIN SENSATION,
PUNISHMENT OF SOCIABIST FOR VIDE ACCUSATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 10.4 p.m., June 28. Berlin, June 28. Herr Kimeri, a Socialist member of tho Reichstag, has been . sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for delivering a speech at Halle declaring that the German East Asiatic Brigade during the Boxer troubles devastated the land, plundered, and violated women. Membors of the Brigade testified that soldiers were pillaging and desecrating graves and temples, and outraging women, the officers hooting. OUTRAGES JUSTIFIED. By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 12.16 a.m., Jone 29. * Berlin, June 28. Kimort was sentenced on the ground that he libelled tbo whole • army, the Court holding that the outrages mentioned in evidence wore bound to occur in time of warfare.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1493, 29 June 1905, Page 2
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124A BERLIN SENSATION, Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1493, 29 June 1905, Page 2
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