The trial of Colonel von Reuter, commander of the Prus-
sian regiment recently stationed at Zabern, and of Lieutenant Schad, of the same regiment, opened at Strassburg before a special military tribunal on Monday, and has continued throughout the week. Colonel von Reuter, in his opening statement, assumed entire responsibility for everything done by his subordinates. He attributed the growth of ill-feeling entirely to the animus of the Press and the hostility of the civil and judicial authorities, but admitted that be had said it would be good if blood were shed, because it was a question of restoring the Government authority. Lieutenant Schad, who followed, admitted that wherever he suspected people of laughing he arrested them. The statements of the two officers were controverted point by point by the civilian witnesses. Herr Mehl, the Kreisdirektor of Zabern, denied hostility or aggressive action on the part of the crowd, but declared that the people were annoyed by the patrols with fixed bayonets and the conduct of Lieutenant von Forstner. His own action in endeavouring to pacify public opinion was rendered of DO
avail by the conduct of the young officers. , •
