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THE GERMAN WAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received Mav 14, 8.10 a.m. BERLIN, May 13. Lieutenant Brandon has obtained a verdict of HOs against a newspaper for! accusing him of bribing a soldier, thus enabling him to escape. The court mitigated the lino because! it was considered that a spy was un-j worthy of tho special protection of thej 3a »'- | A report, published in the 'Rhoin-iseho-Wostfalisehe Zeitung,' Messrs Rrupp's local organ at Essen, to tint effect that Lieutenant Brandon attempted to escape on Wednesday night is declared to be a "pure invention" by tho commandant of Wesel fortress, wbcro he is confined (stated the Berlin correspondent of the 'Daily Mail,' writing on 'February 1 23). Lieutenant Brandon is the British naval officer who was sentenced to four years' detention in a fortress for espionage in December, 1910.
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Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 5
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143UNWORTHY OF PROTECTION Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 5
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