PLANS SOLD TO GERMANY
ORDNANCE FACTORY CASE TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 19. As a result of his activities in the Euxton (Lancashire) ordnance factory case when he sold plans of the factory to Germany, Joseph Kelly, aged 31, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment at the Manchester Assizes. The Judge, in sentencing him, said the possession of this plan in the event of an Anglo-German war would enable the Germans to bomb and destroy the factory.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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