BELATED CHARGE

Grey River Argus, 7 December 1932, Page 8

BELATED CHARGE

AGAINST GERMAN SOLDIER. — ()E BETRAYAL AT VI’RES’. — (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assu.) LONDON, Dec.-mber 3. “Tl-.e Times’s” Berlin correspondent stab's: NinC'tet'n years after the iii'st German gas attack ar Y'prcs, Jager, a German "X-soldier, is now on trial on a eharge of treason at Leipzig, namely <i charge of betraying tho attack, on meiiiv cuidoucc. The case is bnseq on an article by General Ferry, French Commander of the sector, published in 1930, in which it was alleged that .lager gave the position of the gas bat tori'.and the article accused the Fr mT. I'oncrals of ifailnrc to protect ihe troops. A ic]>r< ’. ehl ali \ e of the Keivhswohr Ministry is pressing for Jager’s eonvii'lion, and insists that the l-’rcnch took ineasuro s to reduce losses, a!-' 1 mitigating the effect of the ::lla<‘k. Jager denies desorlion and betrayal, and claims that he strayed into th’ enemy’s trenches, and the French deduced th.- imminonee of the attack from ihe wadding of gauze he «-.ir ri<-d. as part of his equipment.