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Show GERMAN WOMAN FINED FOR GATHERING WOOD The committee on public Information has made, the following truncation of tit) article untiring iu the Bremer f'-Ucrgcr-ZeilUIli;! , "A soldier's wife who hnd gathered wood in t lie common forest of Wuld-klreh, Wuld-klreh, neiir Freltnjrg In Krcisgau. was .sentenced for the otTeuse iu the follow-In? follow-In? terms: "'Mrs. Clara Canter, on June 13, li17, Ims removed from the common forest of WuldUlrch, Sec. I 23, one fagot of dry fir twigs of the value of 10 pfenning. In punishment thereof she Is sentenced to a fine of 1 mark and one day's Imprisonment.' "The husband of the culprit has been for three years at the front, she herself her-self has four small children to'support In the direst poverty. Similar reports of punishment should be reported in greater numbers. Our bureaucracy understands un-derstands how to employ this period of shortage of wood and coal on a larpe scale for the benefit of the treasury." |