Show BRUTAL PETTY OFFICERS Terrible Conditions Prevailing in ia the Army Berlin BerUn Sept 10 Paragraphs similar to the following appear almost daily in inthe Inthe inthe the provIncIal press Cologne The of ot the fifteenth division ton has bas sentenced Ser See Sergeant geant pant Schott to a year in tn prison and aDd degradation for tor flogging privates and antt horsewhipping and kicking them Twelve artillerymen were sentenced to short term terme for fOl assisting him x There have been eighty convictions of o sergeants for abuse of privates dur during durIn lag ing In the last three months and about zoo 00 are pending The administration of the army to 5 making b the t f most t determined efforts to stop these brutalities which Herr Be Bebe Bebel be bet the socialist leader eader detailed in a ferocious three hours boors laou speech In the in the spring sprint The Tbt weak reply of f General von vio GoUIer on the following day probably cost hint him his hi place as u minister of war warn J It n has haa long 1 been the tile theory of mill mili military tary tar men en that a little rough treatment mutI was wag good a for privates and aad cultivated I manhood in Is h them The emperor never ne r J shared 8 these the e views countenanced coun I the cruelties practiced in nearly every regiment re ment He tie issued ed an aD order most moat absolutely I forbidding the of privates and ordering the prosecution and se lie severe vere ieee punishment P un t of or those guilty of or I such each 0 |