TRAITOR EXECUTED.
Frenchman Pays For Selling
Naval Secrets.
INFORMATION FOR GERMANY.
(Received 11 ajn.)
PARIS, March 6.
Marc Aubert, aged 26, a sub-lieuten-ant in the cruiser Vauquelin, has been executed by a firing squad.
On January 11 he was sentenced to death by a Toulon court-martial for [betraying naval secrets to a foreign. Power, and Marie Jeanne Morel, aged 27, accused of complicity, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The sum of £100, which she and Aubert had allegedly received from Germany was confiscated.
It was stated that Aubert sold the plans for the mobilisation of the Mediterranean Fleet during the Czech crisis for £480.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 9
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