ESPIONAGE CASE
WITNESS HORSEWHIPPED. PARIS. May 8. Major Joan Froge, brother of the Froge mentioned in the latest espionage case, encountered Major Dcrenque. a witness in the case, and horsewhipped him in the main street of Belfort, shouting, “That’s how I treat liars and cowards.” “I swear I told the truth,” cried Derenque as he dodged the whip-strokes. A policeman arrested both. Meanwhile the authorities are taking steps to prevent a duel between the disputants. According to a Paris message of May 2, a case paralleling that of Mane Louise was unearthed during the hearing of espionage charges in which Major Froge and George Sybcrt. alias Stanislaus Krauss, were implicated Two Germans, Joseph Moeller and Otto Gies, have already been sentenced to two and five years’ imprisonment respectively and banished for ton years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 5
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133ESPIONAGE CASE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 5
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