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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

ASHAMED OF THE ARMT. GERMAN WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR SI'EAKING HER MIND. " I am a shamed of being a German!" Fur uttering tins sentence, and adding that tliu German soldiers bad conducted themselves m lielgium hko bat bariaufi, a German woman of Cologne is to np-iH-ar before the criminal court of that city and be pvit on trial, presumably ou u charge of treason. .... German newspapers wuich liavo arrived in Amsterdam give particulars of tlio ease. Tlio woman, it appears, made uso (it these candid expression** in the eourso of ;i conversation with a neighbour. 1 i« lattor. taking a *1 ilferen t view of ne beha\i<»ur ot the Gorman army in its campaign of loot, rapine, and barbarism, reported tho matter to the military authorities, who took a very serious view of it. Consequently on tlie unsupported testimony of tlio neighbour tlio indiscreet woman is to be arraigned. Details of the trial are awaited m Amsterdam with mile hinterest tor there are many Germans, there and elsewhere, who think the same as the unfortunate woman of Cologne. h is staled that the. German Emperor packed'up all his British uniforms and Ut tlx'tn to the King at Huekinghaiu Palace directly war was declared. In in was a sign of grace 011 the part 01 Kaiser Hill- He saw that hj« was unworthy to wear them. If there were but one religion in England. its despotism would lie formidable; if tlwTo woiv onlv two thoy would throtU 0 each other '.bore are thirty, and thev live happily and peaceably.—