WOMAN SPY.
SENSATIONAL ESPIONAGE TRIAL TURNED TABLES ON POWER EMPLOYING HER. (By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright) (Received' This Day, 8.40 a.m.) BREST, Sept. 11. iMademoisellc ,/Lydia Oswald, aged 29, born in Switzerland, a fascinating blonde, and a selif confessed spy, appeared at a Naval court-martial today in one of the most sensational espionage trials for years with her lover, Lieutenant Jean De Forcoville, and a follow officer, Lieutenant llene Guignard. All the changes involved important National defence secrets. The story unfolded behind lacked doors showed how Lydia attempted to •enmesh the young Trench naval officer and how instead he stole her heart. It .also showed hoiw she deliberately turned the tables on the foreign power employing her. Judgment was reserved. OFFICERS' CHIVALRY CHANGED HER MIND. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) BREST, Sept. 11th. Lydia Oswald has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and the two naval officers were acquitted. 'Oswald paid tribute to the gallantry of the French officers. She said she came to Brest to spy, but their nobility and chivalry made her change her plans.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1935, Page 5
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176WOMAN SPY. Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1935, Page 5
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