ECHO OF GREAT WAR
DRAMATIC INCIDENT IN PARIS COURT. BELGIAN SPY RECOGNISED. (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) London, June 14. The Daily Express Paris correspondent says that a Belgian spy who betrayed a number of Frenchmen and Belgians to the Germans was recognised dramatically in the Paris Court. '’That is the wretch,” cried out M. Georges, a French Customs officer, when Laperre, a Belgian accountant, came into the dock on a charge of swindling. “He betrayed six of us. Let me get at him. I’ll strangle him.” The police intervened. Laperre, who burst into tears, said: “I confess, but the Germans promised me my life if I agreed to spy. I had been doing espionage work for Britain but was betrayed by a woman spy and sentenced to death.” The Belgian authorities announce that TApprre was sentenced to death by default in 1921 for denouncing Frenchmen and Belgians of which ten were shot.—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19896, 15 June 1926, Page 7
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152ECHO OF GREAT WAR Southland Times, Issue 19896, 15 June 1926, Page 7
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