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Show dLii I LlSuL UlaUi bumm OrnbLls Court Martial Punishes Steel King for Pillaging French Factories. AM TEN'S, Wednesday. Dec. 21. A court martial has sentenced tho German officer, Robert Uoecklinir, administrator of mines at Karlsruhe, to ten years confinement, fifteen years of exile and a fJie of ten million francs upon his conviction of a charge of ortranizins the pillage of factories fac-tories in eastern France. H was testi-I testi-I fied at his trial that he collected raa- chinory and other material from the fac-: fac-: tories and blew it up in November, 1 L'IS. '. His brothers, Herman and Ludwir, were given similar sentences by default. Tlie Roecklin? brothers are known as German "Leei kinxs." Herman Uoeek-lins. Uoeek-lins. president of a steel association, was at Treves as a member of 1 he Germa n armistice commission, for which reason lie was not arrested. The other brother, laidwi.Lr. went to Versailles as a member of the peace delegation and conse immtly wus covered by diplomatic: immunity. The evidence predated by the prosecution prosecu-tion was to show that the broih-rs had .systematically destroyed t iie French metal working plants at i:riey, .Micheville, LoiiJr-Vy and other places, transporting within two yci-Ts' time milliot.s of tons of material to their factory at Karlsruhe, including quantities of undamaged material mate-rial so as to make the operation of what remained of the French plants next to impossible. Robert Roccklimr in his defense pleaded that he had acted by order or the Gorman Gor-man government, but testimony was given to show that his action was on his personal initiative. |