Bilsen's Book.
IT IS MAKING A STIR. Received 13, 11.20 p.m. BERLIN, Nov. 13. Most of the newspapers are commenting on the Court's admission that Lieut. Bilsen's revelations were based on reality, and urge the military authorities to seriously investigate a state of things where social attractions are few and officers many. Received 14, 0.14 a.m. BERLIN, Nov. 13 Lieut. Bilsen's book assailed the virtue of the officers' wives, and described the officers as dissolute, and the colonel a cowardly Don Juan who did not dare to face tf.e pistol of a local chemist, who was a crack shot. Some officers in the course of cross examination admitted what the novelist said of the others was substantially correct. The newspaper Jr* 1 * Zei tung says that P haa Bilsen chosen another methof of ox- . would ß h" 6 , aPPalKn ' B ' "owHtioM ho •would have deserved the gratitude of the army and Fatherland
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 245, 14 November 1903, Page 3
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152Bilsen's Book. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 245, 14 November 1903, Page 3
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