Show WHY THEY WERE EXECUTED J Htfijonfor Execution of Two Australians Austra-lians in South Africa London April 31he Morning Leader Lead-er publishes the alleged story of the Crimea which led to tho courtmartial i ana execution of two Australian Officers I li South Africa which Is just now ex i cJtlng keen indignation In Australia Tho newspaper asserts that several o01cers oi this particular irregular corps shot natives like rabbits and that they were even suspected of mur flcrlng t men of their own command r alnst whom they had grudges The incident which led to their courtmar tial was the coldblooded execution b jy theso officers of ten Boers who were journeying to Pietersburg with the object ob-ject of surrendering It was supposed these Boers had I 20000 with them Actuated by cupidity the Australians Austra-lians stopped the Doers tried them by mock courtmartial and ordered all to be shot This was done by a squadron of the soldiers after some of the noncommissioned non-commissioned officers had refused to carry out the death sentence The ofll cers then ransacked the Boer wagons and were disgusted upon finding that the 120000 was In Transvaal paper money Continuing the Morning Leader says a German missionary a fewtnlles distant dis-tant from the scene of the execution heard or the affair Lieut Hancock onc of the Australians concerned fearing fear-ing he would divulge his information shot the missionary dead This shooting shoot-Ing eventually led to a complaint by tho German Consul to Lord Kitchener who proceeded to courtmartial the Australians |