SELLING SECRETS
BERLIN, July 14. • For selling plans the court-martial sentenced Sergeant Pohl to 15 years’ penal servitude and 10 years’ deprivation of civil and military rights, and dismissal from the army, July 15. Pohl was in receipt of £B4 per annum. He was employed in clerical work in the military engineering headquarters, and thus had access to .plans. Desiring money with a view to marrying, he sold the plans of the Pillau Boyen fortress to Colonel Bxsaroff for £25. Colonel Basaroff asked « for the plans of fortifications in Heligoland and at Borkum. Pohl had secured sketches and arranged a meeting, but was arrested in the interval.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3149, 22 July 1914, Page 25
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107SELLING SECRETS Otago Witness, Issue 3149, 22 July 1914, Page 25
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