SEPARATIST CONSPIRACY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17812, 11 July 1923, Page 9

SEPARATIST CONSPIRACY.

* GERMANS SENTENCED. (BY CABLS—PRESS ASSOCIATIOJT-'-COPYBIGKT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABUI ASSOCIATION.) BERLIN, July 9. Professor George Fuchs was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment with hard labour and fined 2,000,000 marks. Wunck, found guilty of assisting Fuchs, was sentenced to lo months' ment and fined 30,000,000 marks, with deportation, at the end of his imprisonment. Threo others were acquitted. [Remarkable evidence was given by Major Malir at the trial at Munich or Professor George Fuchs and others for alleged conspiracy to separate Bavaria from the Reich. Major Mahr said he met a French colonel Richart. who explained to him that Franco was the strongest Power in the world and could do what she liked. She wished for peace and quietness in the next 50 ,\ears, and therefore noeded the Rhine frontier. Outwardly France would be obliged to adopt a hostile attitude, but nevertheless the conspirators would receive all the help they wanted. The conspiracy plan was that Bavaria should be joined to Austria through Vienna «nd given Caecho-Slovakia, the Tyrol, Wurtemberg, Bnden, Heßse, Ilnnover, and Bremen, and form a new Rhine Conf( deration. The whole of the- west bank of the Rhin© would become French.]