6 MARCH 1920, Page 2

The Allies decided last Saturday to submit to Germany forty-six

typical cases of foul crime committed by Germans during the war, at the expense of seven different nations. Ger- many will be asked to send the criminals for trial before her Courts. Germany's good faith will be judged by the conduct of the trials and the nature of the punishment awarded. We have no great belief in the impartiality of German Courts, whose Judges have been drilled in that subservience to the Executive which British Courts lost after 1688. But there is no harm in giving the German Courts a chance of showing their belief in abstract justice.