COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE
SECRET FRENCH TRIAL.
NATIONAL DEFENCE IN PERIL. THIRTEEN PEOPLE DEALT WITH. dy CAtn.ti niissb association —copyhigh 1 , PARIIS, March 15. “This trial again reveals the audacious anti-Frencn espionage plan conceived at the Third International at Moscow and proves that the French national defence is placed in the greatest peril,” declared the judge at the conclusion of the secret trial ol 13 persons, including a city councillor, an exemployee erf the renvue departnieiitreiml a number of French soldiers.
They were charged with supplying military information to Soviet agents. The sentences ranged from five years to six months’ imprisonment. Mademoiselle Louise Clarac, secretary to the Communists, was sentenced in her absence to five yeans’ imprisonment.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 March 1928, Page 5
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