To. the Editor of the "Norra-Cums Dairy News."
Sir,—I am anxious to discover if there is any feeling at all, not only among my ex-service confreres of Allied nationalities, but among the general public, with regard to the dastardly farce that is obtaining, known as the war criminals' trial. The cable in this morning's issue of your paper stating that a "Captain Crasius convicted of the charge of shooting prisoners is sent.
enced to two years' imprisonment and is >jieptived of the right to wear uniform" comes somewhat as a climax.
We have recently read of the alleged criminals being continually discharg; as "Not Guilty," and although one may marvel, it is difficult to do more. But here we have a case where one of the most damnable charges is upheld and the prisoner receives two years' imprisonment. After such justice one has every right to suspect that even this sentence may never be served.
I do not counsel blind hatred of the German nation, but these incidents are, without doubt,—responsible for the storing up of much bitter feeling in the hearts of "those who suffered," and I hold our own Governments and our senior Generals at home guilty of a disgraceful dereliction of duty in the matter if they allow this heart-breaking farce to continue.
It would be so much better and more dignified to admit that we are unable to enforce the loud and bombastic assertions made during the war and immediately after the) armistice, and cancel the pertaining clause in the peace trary.
I am, etc.,
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