UNHAPPY BELGIUM
UNDER A RULE OF IRON. MANY PROMINENT PERSONS SHOT. (Reed. 3.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 19. General von Bissing, Governor of Belgium, has placarded the Belgian town halls with notice of court-martial sentences for espionage. Five death sentences passed comprised Miss, Caveli Countess Jeanne de Belleville, Madame Thuliez (a French teacher), Philippe Dany (an architect) and Severin (a chemist) and four others including a- woman sentenced to fifteen years' hard labour. Princess Maria Decroy, who broke an umbrella over a German officer's back for insulting her at Ostend, was sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Three Belgian and French women were sentenced to death elsewhere.
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Grey River Argus, 22 October 1915, Page 5
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