Elderly British Traitor
Press Assn.
E1GHT OTHERS EXECUTED
By Telegraph
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Received Thursday, 11 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 30. The authorities, just before the time fixed for the execution, granted a reprieve to the sixty-year-old British Army veteran of the first world war, George Dace, who was sentenced to death for espionage and collaboration, and commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. The authorities similarly commuted the sentences imposed against twelve others found guilty at a mass trial on July 20. The remaining eight found guilty were executed by firing squad today. At the trial in July Dace was found guilty of betraying resistance workers to the Gestapo. Dace, who lived for many years in the Dijon area in France, gave his neighbours the impression that he was actually a member of the British underground forces.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1946, Page 9
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