PUGILIST COURTMARTIALLED.
A court-martial acquitted Louis De Ponthieu, the French lightweight pugilist on a charge of desertion. De Monthieu was in the United States when the war broke out, and, instead of returning to France to join the colours, ,he accepted engagements for three fights. When he returned home six months later he was arrested. TIRED OF “KULTUR.” Dr Otto Sattlor, Secretary of the German Association of Culture, in an address delivered at New York, said: “I am a German. I received in Germany the best training which Kultur can give, but I am against this -war because the war was never wanted by the common people.” Dr Sattler said that the war had been brought on by the military clique in Germany, and the common people had been compelled to fight at the bidding of the aristocracy.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 250, 13 July 1915, Page 2
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138PUGILIST COURTMARTIALLED. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 250, 13 July 1915, Page 2
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