ALLEGED TREASON
GERMAN IN THE WAR STORY OF A FRENCH WRITER J Times Cable LONDON. Dec. 5 j The Berlin correspondent of the limes | states that 17 years after the first German gas attack at Ypres, a German exsoldier named .Jager is now on trial for treason at Leipzig for betraying the attack. The prosecution is based on enemy evidence in an article by General ferry, the French commander in the sector, published in 1930, in which it was alleged that Jager gave the position of the gas liatteries and accused the French generals oi failure to protect their troops, j
A representative of the Ministry of Defence is pressing for .lager's conviction, and insists that the French took measures to reduce their losses, also mitigating the effect of the attack.
Jager denies desertion and betrayal. Ho claims that he strayed into the enemy trendies and that the French deduced the imminence of the attack from a wadding pad he carried as part of his equipn cut _
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 11
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