THE ZABERN TROUBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5

THE ZABERN TROUBLE.

■ COURTMARTIAL OF OFFICERS. MORE CONIT.itTING EVIDENCE. THE CROWN PRINCE'S REMARKS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Berlin. January SThere was conflicting evidence in the Zabern inquiry. A military witnes- described the stoning of soldiers bv a howling crowd of a hundred, while two barristers gave evidence that there was complete tranquility, and no cause for military intervention. A sergeant of gendarmerie gave evidence that lie saw the military arresting people in the Schbss-Phitz at Zabern. The square was practically empty. He did not know why people were arrest.'l. The excitement always became noticeable when the soldiers appeared. The prosecutor proposed that Colonel von Renter In- acquitted on the charge of usurping executive power, a.s he was unaware he was acting illegally, but sentenced to a week's imprisonment for infringing the liberty of the subject, lie also proposed three days' imprisonment for Lieutenant Schad, for striking a witness named Kormann.

Sentences were postponed till Satur •day.

Newspapers state thai the Crown Prince denies that his telegrams were intended to imply that the inhabitants of •Alsace and Lorraine were enemies of the country, but the honor of the uniform and the officers must be protected from insult. It was the duty of a commander to protect his officers and men. A DRAXIATIC APPEAL. USURPING POL-ICE AUTHORITY. Received !>. 11 p.m.

I'erlin. January 9. Colonel Yon Reuler made a dramatic appeal to the,.('ourt. He declared that as a soldier and a man he had done only what was absolutely necessary to prevent worse things happening. The honor of the army was ii; his 1:.- j>"ng, and he bad safeguarded the trust iv.ci-.ed in him. The Prosecutor, in his address, said that Yon Renter had acted in good faith but bad unconsciously usurped police authority and violated Hie. law by imprisoning citizens instead of handing them over to the civil authorities.