WARTIME INCIDENT

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9

WARTIME INCIDENT

APPEAL AGAINST HIGH TREASON SENTENCE THE MOREAUS REHABILITATED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, January 20. (Received January 22, at 1.30 a.in.) Louis Moreau’s sons were rehabilitated and awarded £9OO damages. [A previous message stated; The Paris correspondent of ‘ The Times says a special military court lias adjourned for a week the hearing of an appeal for rehabilitation by members ot a family condemned for high treason in war time. The father was Louis Moreau, who was past military age, but continued to work as a miner at Loos en Youellc, where the wife and the sons remained, despite the pi'oximity ol the Germany lines. A neighbour denounced them in November, 1914, tilleging that they were signalling to the enemy. A raid on the ltou.se resulted in the discovery of a lantern marked “ made in Germany.” Louis was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and died in a penal settlement at Cayenne, the mother was sentenced to death, but tliis was commuted to imprisonment fir twenty years, and she died in gaol. The sons respectively served ten and five rears at Cayenne, and returned to Prance. A witness gave evidence of the impossibility of the Germans seeing sig mils from the house and the unlikchhood of the family, who were all illiterate, knowing the Morse code.]