A TRAGEDY OF THE WAR.
A HAS 1 i UOL'RT-MA-RTIAt; ... CREXCa jSCASDAI. &EVEAI&D.. By Telegraph. .Praaa A awn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 9 8.40 p.m. . Faris, Dec, 9Sentences of French courts-martial Ar® .occupying public attention. a?id ft M’ihber at c®*e* ha we been disclo'sed in .whieh theta has. been manifest injustice. Th® -follQWinfr ia. a typical case: Last week the body of Alplmnse Mallet tfas diaiitucred ?Awberie anti it was proved he died in 1915 fighting three Germans. whom» bodies were buried with Mallet. ■ Nevertbeleoa he was sentenced to death i® Oetober. 1915. being charged with desertion in front of the enemy. As he -«fli4d not be- found the verdict was posted in hhi village and the villager? beat his wife'Mnd children and compelled them th fl from home. The wife died from grief, still proclaiming belief in her hubands- Inherence- The children have been isulted daily at school and boycotted until the 'dramatic discovery .of their father’s body cleared his hofior. — -Ahs.-N.Z. Cable Aim.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 5
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163A TRAGEDY OF THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 5
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