THE ZABERN INCIDENT.
MILITARY V. CIVILIANS.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Untteii Dress shsottatton-I Received 8.45 a.m.)
St. Petersburg, January 7
There is much illfeeling against von Reuter and his fellow-officers, who escaped from an angry crowd by taking refuge in a tramcar. Yon Reuter justified his roughness towards a boy witness because no one should pass a Prussian colonel without raising his cap.
OFFICER’S HIGH-HANDEDNESS.
(Received 9.45 a.m.) Berlin, January 7
Mueller, the district commissary, in giving evidence at Strashurg, said Yon Reuter told him he was resolved to prevent people standing in the streets. The troops, he said, would fire if the people laughed. He also ordered machine guns to be held in readiness.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 5
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114THE ZABERN INCIDENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 5
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