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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1928, Page 4

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BLACK ARMY CHARGE. BERLIN, April 15. Germans are not allowed to forget the system of murder by which discipline was maintained in the Black Army, secretly formed to co-operate with the small army which the Treaty of Versailles permitted Germany to maintain. Two cases are before the courts in which the responsibility for the murder of men of the Black Army who were suspected of disloyalty is being once more discussed.

Ono, in Berlin, is an action for libel brought by three officers of the present Army, acting under orders from the Ministry of Defence, against a writer in a weekly paper who declared "that they ought to be in the dock with Lieutenant Schulz, who was condemned to death (the sentence being commuted to penal servitude for life) for causing one of his subordinates in the Black Army to he murdered.

Schultz, who appeared to-day as a witness for the defence, contested the plea of the three officers that they were not responsible for the dark deeds in the Black Army or, as they called it, the Labour Battalions.

“It is monstrous,” he said, banging liis fist on the table in front of him, “to pretend that these men were labourers. They were soldiers who were drilled and exercised on a military basis.”

He declared that the officers of the real army, under whom stood officers of the Black Army, were responsible for the means taken to preserve discipline. What those means were the trial of eight men for tlie murder of a man of the Black Army which is now going on at Stettin shows. It was suspected that a man was about to betray the secrets of the Black Army. He was therefore lured into the forest and murdered-

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