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Show oo GERMAN OFFICERS' REPREHENSIBLEACTS HAVRE, April 2. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A well authenticated au-thenticated incident which occurred recently re-cently during a German courtmartlal in Belgium hns just become known here. M. Paul Terlinden. burgomaster of Rixensart, appeared before the court charged with shielding a wound- ed Frenchman for which he was condemned con-demned to twelve months' imprisonment. imprison-ment. His daughter, Baroness De Coninck, a young married woman, whose hus-i band is at the front, was present at tho hearing. A German officer sat down beside her, saying: "I believe, raadame, I have met you before." Baroness De Coninck replied "You are mistaken, I don't know vou, sir." The German persisted, saying. "Perhaps I am mistaken, but you greatly resemble an English woman wnom l Knew wen. "Evidently you mean Miss Cavell," retorted the baroness. For this answer sh.e was sentenced to one month in prison |