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Show SOCIALIST SHOT BY THE GERMANS London. Aug. 14 (3 ::.'( a. m j iuc j Daily Citizen, organ of the Labor party, par-ty, sav.s it has learned from reliable authority that Mr Karl Liebknecht. the German Socialist leader, has beeu shot for refusing military service. The Daily Citizen says that the story was brought to London by a German refugee, who reported that Btrlin, owing to the shortage of food, was in a virtual state of revolution Dr. Liebkueeht was an offer of tne reserves and was called up for serv-l ice. He refused to respond on conscientious con-scientious grounds, whereupon, according ac-cording to the story, a detachment of soldiers was sent to his residence. He was taken to the military barracks bar-racks and court-martialed After a short trial he was convicted and shot by a platoon of infantrymen. It Is also reported that Kosa Luxemburg, Lux-emburg, the noted Socialist writer, who declared soldiers were maltreat-1 ed in the army, has been shot. Dr Karl Liebknecht was born in 1871 and since his entry into politics as a Social Democrat had been one of the foremost leaders of the party I He was an uncompromising antl militarist mil-itarist and in 1907 was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for high treason, the charge growing out of a pamphlet he wrote attacking militarism. mil-itarism. It was Liebknecht who last year in the reichstag charged that the KniDlJ COmnanv. mnnnfaet ur.rc ot j arms and armaments, through an agent, bribed armj and navy officials In order to obtain an insight into official of-ficial documents He also charged that the Krupp.s caused articles to be printed in France advocating an In-! In-! crease in the French army in order j to bring abont a warlike spirit in j Germany All the officers accused by Liebknecht were convicted by court ( martial and given light sentences. Last June Liebknecht created an-I an-I other sensation in the reichstag when he charged that trafficking in titles on a commission basis was carried on In Prussia and that certain titles had been granted for money consideration |