SPIES EXCHANGED.
UNUSUAL peace-time move,
PARIS, December 30.
One of the. most beautiful women in the German Secret Service was included in a batch of four convicted spies exchanged for. four convicted French spies the other night. She was Irene Lautemann, aged 27. The exchange, unprecedented in time of peace was made with the greatest secrecy 'at Apache, a frontier town. The exchange, and the signing of papers bv the police of each nationality, was completed in a few minutes. Tall dark, and fashionably dressed, Fraule'in Lautemann was the only woman involved. She was sentenced by a Paris military tribunal last year to three years' imprisonment, but the evidence was not revealed, Tt is only known that, with plenty of money apparently at her disposal, she moved in the highest Parisian society until the day she was arrested. Two 0 f her companions, Burke and Thiel were also sentenced in Paris. The 'fourth German Tritz, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by « Met* military tribunal for spying on Le Maginot Line. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 7
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