ESPIONAGE TRIAL.
DANISH OFFICER, CONVICTED.
A SENSATION IN DENMARK
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)
BERLIN, Jan. 9. A Copenhagen message states there is a sensation throughout Denmark at the sentence of five years’ penal servitude on Captain Lembourn, who was convicted at Berlin for espionage. The trial was secret, but it is stated Lembourn asserted he acted only in the interest of Denmark, being anxious to discover what preperations the German .Fascist organisations had made for an attack on the Danish southern frontier. The court, to the contrary, declared that Lembourn acted on behalf of a secret service built up l by the French military attache at Copenhagen, that his researches were chiefly directed against the Reichswehr _ and the militarised section of the police. The Danish Press says Germany, under the Versailles Treaty, should not have military secrets ; therefore it was not a question of espionage.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 January 1929, Page 5
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