TEN YEARS' SENTENCE
"MAN WHO LOST THE WAR"
,ECHO OF FIRST GAS ATTACK
(Received 19th December, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, 18th December. ' Jager, known as "The Man who JLost the War," has been sentenced to 'ten years' penal servitude.
Jager, a German.' ex-soldier, has been on trial at Leipzig for betraying the first German, gas attack to the enemy. The attack was made at Ypres, and the charge was based upon, the publication tit an article by the Frenei General Ferry, who alleged that Jager gave tlie position of the gas' batteries, and cfctarged that the French generals had failed to,protect their troops. The prosecution, argued that the French had taken measures to reduce their losses and1 protect their troops. Jager contended that he strayed into the French lines,, and that.they deduced the imminence of the attack from the wadding pad which he carried as part of his equipment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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148TEN YEARS' SENTENCE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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