Lese Majeste in Germany.
Berlin, July 0. The week has produced a large crop of lese majeste. Two boys, aged 14 and 10 respectively, were sent to gaol for a month for upsetting a plaster bust of the Kaiser in a public garden, after making opprobrious remarks about it. Another case was that of an aged woman of Silesia, regarded by her neighbours as an irresponsible person, who declared that the Kaiser was frittering away a terrible lot of good money among a horde of parasites which belonged to the poor. For this treasonable remark, accompanied by an unflattering description of His Majesty’s appearance, she got four months. A young man named Luben got a year’s imprisonment for expressing regret that the recent attack on the Kaiser in Bremen was io slight.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 200, 30 August 1901, Page 1
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132Lese Majeste in Germany. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 200, 30 August 1901, Page 1
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