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DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATIONS. 4 . MILITARY CONSPIRACYSUGGESTED. BERLIN, Feb. 2. The court, in passing judgment on Soli reck, -described his activities _ a-si within aj hair’s breadth of creating the most serious interactional complication. The charge was of selling forgea military documents to a foreign Power. These suggested a military conspiracy in Germany to defeat the disarmament provision of the- Treaty of Versailles. The Polish General Staff accepted the documents as genuine, while thesubmission of photographs thereof toother Powers is believed have hampered the negotil it ions ai uocarno and Germany’s- entry into League of Nations. The trial proved that Schreck was the instrument- of sinister forces whose purpose was to prevent European' reconciliation. The Public Prosecutor did not believe the conspiracy was of German origin, but those who used Schreck as- a puppet would probably never bo revealed. , Koch was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and .Schultz- to four and a-hulf years.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 4 February 1928, Page 5
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