SUPPOSED MURDER
WAS COUNTER. ESPIONAGE TO BLAME? A TELL-TALE LETTER. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.' (Received Feb. 2, 5 p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 2. Suspected counter espionage is behind a supposed murder in the Bois de Boulogne of a Belgian named. r de Lattre, who recently tried to sell to the War Office a German device for stopping aeroplanes'in flight. Close to the body detectives found a letter, which read: . ‘ I told them to give the documents for nothing if necessary.. If anything happens to me you will know it was they who struck-the blow.” ' . V De Lattre had mentioned fear.-of reprisals for something which he* had done. Secret service men had shadowed De Lattre for some davs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10811, 4 February 1929, Page 5
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122SUPPOSED MURDER Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10811, 4 February 1929, Page 5
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