WAS THE JUDGE WRONG?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

WAS THE JUDGE WRONG?

Ts it an insult to call a, wan a Pr;:<=-sia-.i ? The learned judge of tho Second JDivmon of the Berlin Central Penal Court rules that it is. The Yorwartsindignantly repudiates th. dictum. The facts are as follow : -Three young labourers were charged with a trifling assault, <m the pres'dent asking one of them, Wilhclin Gobel, a lad of 10. why the third accused man was not in court, he answered, 'With the meaning, ol course, that he was at tho front. '•The iudgo therefore sentenced Gobel to four days' imprisonment for making uo of insulting language in court. Ine mother of the prisoner, amid tears and lamentations, entreated the court t.> pardon her sen. w no. she said, was a dV-m and k'ndlv l:i<l «'lio had Mippoit-,-d her fromliij earuincs cryr since her husband's departure for the trout at tho outbreak of the war. "To licr supplicat.ons tho. pre*xi2iu retorted: me s '■'•» ""■ , . It is lor von to train your von in sucn ;l way that he may net again emploj such 'insulting expression-.. , •'Thus a Berlin judge coolly lays down tho law at a time whn all Germans J uppesod to l>e brothers figbtua aSinst a common foe. that tocall « man a Prussian is to insult him .