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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3601, 12 July 1880, Page 3

The Berliner Zietung has caused some sensation in Germany by a terrible de^K>tion which it has published^ of the maWeatment to which * a soldier, and especially a young recruit in the German army is liable to be subjected at the caprice of his superior, and without any hope of redress. Kicks in the stomach, boxes on the ear, blows with a sheathed sword or the butt end of a musket are, the writer asserts, part of the treatment to which the soldier must submit; since he soon learns that, however cruelly, harshly, and unjustly he may be treated, if he complains his complaints will probably be fruitless, and that in any case it will go hard with him afterwards. The number of cases of suicide in the German army, which is notoriously exceedingly large, is mentioned by the writer in support of his case. 111-treated by his superiors, drilled till he faints from fatigue, subjected to the most cruel tortures, which; compare with those of the Inquisition, the soldier, despairing of justice or relief, puts an end to his life.