HELD AS A SPY.
FRENCH OFFICER RELEASED. HOSTAGES ALSO FREED. PARIS, April 20. Advices from Berlin state that the French Army officer, Captain Darmont, has been released. France has consequently liberated the three residents of the Ruhr who were being held as hostages for Captain Darmont.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Captain Darmont was sentenced at Leipzig on March 21 to 12 years' penal servitude and fined 5000 gold marks. Bienz, a Swiss cinema theatre manager, confessed that lie had supplied Captain Darmont with 62 reports regarding the German Reichswehr," for which he obtained in 1922 sums' aggregating 1,000,000 marks. Bienz was sentenced a week previously to 11. years' penal servitude for espionage on behalf of France. Three German accomplices, two soldiers and one woman, were sentenced to 13 years, two and a-lialf *vcars, and two years' imprisonment. It was alleged that Bienz acted under orders of Captain Darmont. The French authorities in the occupied region* held three prnnii-" nent Germans as hostages for Captain Darmont.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 5
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