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Show LIFE IN THE GERMAN ARMY. Severe Sentence for Cruel Officers ' aa Well a for the Man Itho Inanlt Them. The Vorwarts, of Berlin, stales that since tho beginning ot the year 159 sentences sen-tences have been passed on German officers offi-cers and non-commissioned officers for Ill-treating soldiers. The punishments inflicted amounted in all to 50 years and nine months' imprisonment. On the other hand, according to Das Tageblatt, a court-martial at Heidelberg recently sentenced four men of the 8co ond Baden Grenadier regiment to teu years, six years and four years' Imprisonment, Im-prisonment, respectively, and to be expelled ex-pelled from tho army for having, when off duty, during tho recent mnnouven, Insulted a sergeant who had made hlm solf unpopular. In view ot tho fact that the military court ot apperls has Just reduced the sentence ot Nival Cndet Husscncr, the comrades of the convicted . Grenadier soldiers concluded that officers and men wete not treated alike, When the result re-sult ot the trial wbb announced, the crowd outside tho court ironically cheered for Husscncr Tho Heidelberg press declares that both the civil population and the gar rtson are Indignant at the. severity shown by the court It adds: "Tho majesty ot military discipline has risen on tho Heidelberg horizon In blood-red hues." |