NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE trials of German war criminals at Leipzig have been going on day by day. On Thursday, May 26th, the German corporal Heinen was found guilty on fifteen counts of mal- treating prisoners, and was sentenced to ten months' imprison- ment. The presiding judge, in passing sentence, told Heinen that he and his like had discredited the German Empire before the whole world. He said that Heinen's brutality was particu- larly, bad because the victims were defenceless men. Another prisoner was Captain Muller. In defence of Captain Mtiller's cruelty to prisoners General von Fransecky, one of the German military representatives, admitted that under military law the striking of prisoners could not be justified except in cases of mutiny. There was no excuse for forcing a sick prisoner to work, and such an arrangement as compelling a prisoner to stand gazing at thi sun was not permissible in any circumstances.
