WARTIME INCIDENT

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 7

WARTIME INCIDENT

APPEAL AGAINST HIGH TREASON

SENTENCE.

THE MOREAUS REHABILITATED.

(United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, January 20. Louis Moreau’s sons were rehabilitated and awarded £9OO damages.

A previous message stated: The Paris correspondent of The Times says a special military court has adjourned for a week the hearing of an appeal for rehabilitation by members of a family condemned for high treason in war time. The father was Louis Moreau, who was past military age. but continued to work as a miner at Loos en Youelle, where the wife and the sons remained, despite the proximity of the German lines. A neighbour denounced them in November. 1914, alleging that they were signalling to the enemy. A raid on the house resulted in the discovery of a lantern marked "made in Germany. Louis was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and died in a penal settlement at Cayenne, the mother was sentenced to death, but this was icommuted to imprisonment for twenty years, and she died in gaol. The sons respectively served five and ten years at Cayenne, and returned to France. A witness gave evidence of the impossibility of the Germans seeing signals from the house and the unlikelihood of the family, who were all illiterate, knowing the Morse code.