WOMAN SPY IN FRANCE.
SENTENCE OF TWO YEARS
(Received 1.30 p.m.)
PARIS, January 24. The German woman spy known as "La Belle Sophie," who was arrested on October 10 on the Franco-German frontier with a dismantled machine-gun of the latest type in her luggage, which she had induced a soldier at Metz to smuggle out of the fortress, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Her German husband has been given a five-year sentence, while tlie soldier who smuggled the gun, has received a three-year term.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 7
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