BRITISH FASCISTS
SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT DISLOYALTY TO BRITAIN <Urn tea Prui Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrigtoi) LONDON, Feb. 12 Two British Fascists were sentenced to-day to six months’ imprisonment for offences against the Defence of the Realm regulations. They were Claude Felix Pierre Duvivier, a founder-member of the Anglo-German society, The Link, and William Alexander Crowle, an exemployee of Devonport Dockyard. Part of the case was heard in camera. Duvivier pleaded guilty to having been in possession of a letter addressed to the Fascist paper Action. It contained information about British warships, which Crowle supplied. Counsel for the prosecution read a letter from Duvivier exulting in the German version of the Admiral Graf Spee engagement, which, he said, w f as preferable to the British.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 5
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