FRENCH OFFICER FOUND GUILTY
BELFOKT ESPIONAGE CASE PARIS, November 5. Captain Froge was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, fined 5000 francs, banished from the Belfort area for 10 years, and deprived of civil rights for 10 years. Krauss was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined 5000 francs.
It is expected that Captain Froge will appeal. LCaptain Froge, a French officer with a distinguished war record, was charged with betraying secret army plan;; to a foreign Power. His accusers were Geismann, a deserter from the Austrian Army, who turned police informer, and Krauss, once a Polish officer, who admitted that he had been a spy in the service of Germany. Krauss said he paid Captain Fro<?e £2OOO for a plan of the air defences of Belfort and other frontier defences. Feeling in the French Army, it was reported on October 26, was running high over the affair as Captain Froge had hitherto been blameless, and it was felt that this might be another Dreyfus case.]
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21315, 7 November 1934, Page 11
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