YPRES GAS ATTACK.
GERMAN SOLDIER GAOLED FOR TEN YEARS.
ACCUSED OF BETRAYING" BATTLE PLAN. BERLIN, December 18. ' Jager, known as “The Man who Lost the War,” has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Jager, a German ex-soldier, has been on trial at Leipzig for betraying the first German gas attack to the enemy. The attack was made at Ypres, and the charge was based upon the publication of an article by the French General Ferry, who alleged that Jager gave the position of the gas batteries, and charged that the French generals had failed to protect their troops. The prosecution argued that the French had taken measures to reduce their losses and protect their troops. Jager contended that he strayed into the French lines, and that they deduced the imminence of the attack from the wadding pad which he carried as part of his equipment.)
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Wairarapa Age, 20 December 1932, Page 2
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