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Show Swiss Army Scandal. Much attention has been devoted by the Swiss newspapers of late to the ca?e of a young Swiss officer, at St. Gall, who ordered a corporal to beat a private with his sword belt for a minor offense. When the colonel of the regiment heard of the affair ho promptly placed both lieutenant am' corporal under arrest, and the private was sent to hospital. The young offl-j offl-j ctr has just been sentenced to ten ' days' confinement to barracks and the ' corporal to five days. The affair, how- ieVer. has not yet ended, as the victim, can claim damages for assault. i |