DEATH SENTENCE FOR NAZI AGENT
Recd. 6 p.m. Capetown, March 1.1, The German agent Robey Leibrandt, was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death.
Giving judgment the Judge said the German Government would not have given Leibrandt passage in a submarine if it had not been greatly interested in his project. Leibrandt probably had made an arrangement with the German Government for purposes of his own which were partly also the purposes of the German Government. Leibrandt was said to have been sent to South Africa to foment rebellion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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91DEATH SENTENCE FOR NAZI AGENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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