SHIRKERS' PLOT.
DOCTORS IMPRISONED FOR TREACHERY TO FRANCE.
Paris. April 24
The trial by court-martial was concluded this evening of a number of army and civilian doctors and others charged with fraudulently securing the discharge of soldiers from the army. The court nasscd sentence on the principal oli'enders as follows:—
Dr Lombard, ton years' hard labour and a tine of £120.
Dr Laborde. five years' imprisonment.
Itzka. Garfunkel. fivo years' imprisonment and £160 fine.
Forty others, mostly soldiers whose discharge had been fraudulently obtained, wore sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, ranging from three years to six months and fines of £20' to £400. Four of the accused were acquitted.
The lucrative nature of the operations is shown by the fact that one individual after being mobilised paid L'ooo to secure a fraudulent discbarge.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2971, 20 June 1916, Page 4
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