BRUTES IN GERMAN ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 297, 19 May 1914, Page 5

BRUTES IN GERMAN ARMY.

OFFICERS COMMIT ATROCIOUS CRUELTIES. RIDICULOUSLY LIGHT SEX'fENQSB. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, May 17. Fublie indignation forced the retrial of two troopers in the cuiramiers at Potsdam, who were, sentenced to six and three weeks' imprisonment respectively for breaking into the reeruite' dormitory. The recruits were hounded out of their beds at the sword's point and forced, one to kneel naked on a table, and another to climb a cupboard and sing ft hymn. Six recruits were sent to the hospital with sword wounds. One was slashed across the chest.

The trooper? were court-martialled and received sentences increased by fiftf per cent. OTHER CRUELTIES. Berlin, May, W. Th« cruelties that are practised is the German army are well known, but seldom have any outrages of this character been more keenly resented bv the public than those for which two noncommissioned officers, Sergeant Mueller and Corporal Kochn, have just keen trie(L It was shown that Mueller, not eontent with inflicting innumerable eruel-ti-es upon his subordinates, once poured three bottles of petrol over a soldier and ittiea threatened to set him on fire unless he confessed to a misdeed he had never committed. Koeha, who was found guilty of no fewer .than 113 different acts of cruelty upon soldiers, was sentenced to eight months' and Mueller to four months' imprisonment.