GERMANY’S DYE SECRETS
ATTEMPT TO SELL THEM. Dr Paul Kappelmeier, a chemist, formerly employed by the Roechtter Dye Work/-, Frankfort, Germany, has been given a nine months’ gaol sentence and fined 50,000 marks for attempted betrayal and sale of laboratory secrets to an American dye con ccrn. Two colleagues, alleged to have been implicated in the plot, .succeeded in getting into Holland, where, it is stated, they subsequently were employed by an American firm, although their trunk containing pharmaceutical recipes and dye formulae was intercepted at the Dutch frontier and returned to the German company. Dr Albert Sanders, a chemist, also em ployed by the Roechtter firm, was acijuitted of the charge of having assisted Kappelmeier. In pronouncing the verdict on Kappelmeier the Court accused him of “contemptible double dealing,” and declared that timely intervention by the authorities had saved the German chemical industry from serious injury.
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Southland Times, Issue 19516, 16 May 1922, Page 2
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