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Show SENTENCED FOR ALLEGED PILLAGE Paris. Nov. 26, 11:55 p. m -The permanent court martial today sentenced' sen-tenced' Surgeon Majors Collins and Wohlfart, who were In charge of the principal field hospital of the Second German army corps, to a year's imprisonment im-prisonment for alleged pillage. Nine deaconesses attached to the hospital were given sentences varying from one month to three months, and twenty twen-ty subordinate sentences ranging lrom one month to three years on the same charge. Eleven other poisons poi-sons connected with the hospital were acquitted. The hospital was captured bv the French at Peronne, September 15. The bulk of the baggage aroused the suspicion of the French army officials and its search was ordered. In that of Surgeon Major Collins it was charged, there were found three Ta nagTa statuettes with the labels of the Peronne museum attached to them. It was alleged that in the baggage bag-gage of the deaconesses there were pieces of silks, carpets and fine linens lin-ens which the deaconesses claimed had been given them by Carmelite sisters in appreeiation of their kindness kind-ness to the French wounded. |