HEINE RELEASED
FORGER OFrWAR "PACT"
NO OFFENCE IN LAW
Australian Presi Association.
BRUSSELS, 6th March,
Frank Heine has been released, on the ground that the charges against him did not constitute . under.. the" Belgian penal law justification, for his detention in prison. This announcement follows a newspaper's disclosure that minor officials of the Belgian espionage service assisted Heine. by supplying him with official notepaper and seal. < It is stated that disciplinary proceedings are pending against these officers.
Heine, when arrested, confessed to having forged the "TJtrechtsch Dagblad's" alleged secret Franco-Belgian military treaty. He said that he intended to sell the forgery to the German espionage service. Instead, he sold it to the "Dagblad" for a good price. ■■ ■-
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 9
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117HEINE RELEASED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 9
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