French Woman Spy Brought To Justice

Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1949, Page 5

French Woman Spy Brought To Justice

Received* Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, .Jan. 6. The trial has opened in Paris ot .Mutliilde Carre, a 40-year-old French woman wlio is cliarged with betrayiug 35 members of the French Resistancc Alovement, to the Germans while acting as a liaison ollicer in London between British intelligen.ee and the resistancc groups in Irance. The prosecution' alieged that Carre, after being captuna; by the Germans early in the war, formtd an attachment for a member of tiie / Gennan counter-intelligence. service aud I was se-nt by him to act as a spy in | Britain. Posing as a member of the resistance niovement, she was taken to London vvhere she worked for four months in the War Office. She was arrested by the British -authorities after thev. became suspicious of her aetivities and spent tliree years in Hollowav prison until the end of the war, when she was lianded over to the French. She spent another tliree years in French prisons while the ease against her was being prepared. Carre 's husband, an • Oiiieer in the French Army, was killeri fighting with the Allied forces against tlie Germans at Cassino.