ESPIONAGE CHARGES.
IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LAKOURSEVERE SENTENCES. By Teltiraph—Press Aurnlat'on—CoPTi'rh! Berlin, Deoember U. Tho senteuco of seven years' imprisonment passed on Max Schultz, a British subject, arrested in March last on charges of espionage, means hard labour. The severity of the sentence has caused n sensation. llipisch (whoso sentence was twelve years' imprisonment) was nn engineer at the dockyard, 110 alleged that he had bi>eu promised '10 marks weekly by Schultz. The Judge stated that llipisch had made a largo collection of plans, and after a couplo of interviews with Schultz in January last transferred them to emissaries of England. Tho plans provided far-reaching enlightenment on tho most intimate military and naval affairs. Von Maack (sent to prison for three years) gave written information regarding the commissioning of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American steamers. Wulf (sentenced to two years' imprisonment) was employed in the North German Lloyd Company's machinery works at Bremen.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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152ESPIONAGE CHARGES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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