ESPIONAGE CHARGES
ARRESTS IN GERMANY.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) London, June 8. The Berlin correspondent of the News-Chronicle says General Goering’s secret police arrested seventeen persons of both sexes, including several aristocrats and a former major in the German Army, on charges of espionage following a further intensive investigation into the activities of Sosnowski.
The German People’s Court sentenced to death for espionage and high treason Baron Sosnowski, a Polish officer. Three women, Frau von Berg and Frauleins von Natzemer and von Jena, were sentenced to life imprisonment. The parties were arrested in April, 1934. Frauleins Natzemer and Jena were employed at the War Office and allegedly supplied Sosnowski with copies of documents relating to an expansion of the German Army. The women’s extravagance in dress aroused suspicion. It is understood that Sosnowski and Frau von Berg were married during their long imprisonment, the latter having obtained a divorce. As a result Sosnowski refused an offer of repatriation to Poland as an exchange prisoner.
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Southland Times, Issue 25307, 10 June 1935, Page 7
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167ESPIONAGE CHARGES Southland Times, Issue 25307, 10 June 1935, Page 7
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