GERMAN NAVAL SECRETS.
ATTEMPT TO SELL THEM.
A curious case of attempted treason was decided recently in the German High Court of Justice. Defendants were an anny doctor named Mascher. a naval engineer, Willie Haenel, and Richard Scheufler. The former was a non-com. in the Iron Division when that fores was in the Baltic provinces. They were charged with endeavouring to sell naval plans to America, Russia and Japan. Among the plans was one of an elec-trically-controlled boat, and another of a secret method of mine sweeping. There were also various drawings and descriptions of submarines.
Defendants said they know th 0 plans and descriptions wero things which ought to have, boon kept secret, but (so ran their curious excuse) "wo did not think that Germany could be harmed by their sale, as she is disarmed. Our aim'was to sell the secrets to some Power which might, at a comparatively early date, be at war with England."'
The . prosecution declared that defendants would have obtained many millions of marks had the secret plans and descriptions been disposed of. Mascher was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, Haenel to IS months', and Scheufler 15 months'.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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