ITALIAN TRAITORS.
DISCLOSURE OF GERMAN intrigue.
(By Cable.—Prem Aaiociation.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, July 11. The Homo correspondent of. the "Daily Chronicle" states that the court-martial has begun of four Italians, Carpi, Moscheni, Azzoni, and Bartolinni, who are charged with, blowing up the battleship Benedetto Br in, in September, 1915, at Brindisi, with the loss of 646 of the crew.
The evidence shows that enquiry for six months teas without result, but in May, 1916, the Italian spy, Molotti, who was formerly in the Austrian Secret Servico, revealed a plot between Fonsor, n German official, and the German proprietor of a fashionable Venice hotel, who received £4000 each to organise the outrage. They enlisted the services of tho four accused, three of whom were members of tho battleship's crew. This qiiartet are now in a steel cage in the Roman Assizo Court. They are tKoroughly bad criminals, who received £3400 as blood money.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16263, 13 July 1918, Page 9
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155ITALIAN TRAITORS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16263, 13 July 1918, Page 9
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