CAPTAIN DARMONT FREED.
IMPRISONED AS A SPY. GERMANY TAKES HINT. RUHR HOSTAGES LIBERATED By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright (Received 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. PARIS. April 18. Advices from Berlin state that the French Army officer, Captain Darmont, lias been released. France has consequently liberated the three residents of the Ruhr who were being held as hostages for Captain Darmont. Captain Darmont, charged with being the head of the French espionage service, was sentenced at Leipzig, on March 21, to 12 years' penal servitude and fined 5000 gold marks. Bienz, a Swiss cinema theatre manager, confessed that he had supplied Captain Darmont with 62 reports regarding the German Reichswehr, for which he obtained in 1922 sums aggregating 1,000,000 marks. Bienz was sentenced a week previously to 11 years' penal servitude for espionage on behalf of France. Three German accomplices, two soldiers and one woman, were sentenced to 13 years, two and a-half years, and two years' imprisonment. It was alleged that Bienz acted under the orders of Captain Darmont. The French authorities in the occupied region held three prominent Germans as hostages for Captain Darmont.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 7
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