MISCELLANEOUS.
SEVERAL LADIES MURDERED. AMSTERDAM, October 19. •General yon Bissing, the German Governor of Belgium, has placarded the Belgian town halls with a notice stating that after courts-martial a number of sentences for espionage wer«f passed. These included live death sentences, the victims being Miss Cavell, Countess Joanne de Belleville, Madame Thuliez, a French teacher, Philippe Dany, an architect, and Severin, a chemist. Four others, including a woman, were'sentenced to 15 years' hard labour. Princess Maria Decroy broke her umbrella over a German officer's back for insulting her at Ostend, and was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour. Three Belgians and a French woman have been sentenced to death elsewhere.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8275, 21 October 1915, Page 6
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110MISCELLANEOUS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8275, 21 October 1915, Page 6
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