PENALTY FOR ESPIONAGE.
SENTENCES AT LEIPZIG. Received March 19, 11.25 a.m. BERLIN, March 18. The Supreme Court at Leipzig sentenced the Swiss cinema manager Bienz to eleven years’ penal servitude for espionage on behalf of France. Three German accomplices, two soldiers and olio woman, were sentenced respectively to thirteen, two and a-lialf and two years’ imprisonment. It is alleged that Bienz acted under orders of the French Captain Darmont, who it is alleged is the head of the present French espionage service, who will be tried at Leipzig on March 20.
The French authorities in the occupied region are holding two prominent Germans as Hostages for Captain Darmont. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 970, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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112PENALTY FOR ESPIONAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 970, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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