ESPIONAGE SENTENCES.
t. INDIGNATION IN GERMANY, n iif By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright o Berlin, January 19. u Military circles are bitterly indignant is at the Russian Court, in contrast with the wild sentences on Russian spies, sentencing a German captain charged with espionage to five years in tho convict gangs in Siberia. Tho Austrian' Lieutenant, Voncerno, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Leipzig, for espionage' in the interest of Russia, offered his services ,1 to the Russian Intelligence Bureau, who sent him to Kiel, where he was for twelve months. His report was not im- . portant. c Vinogradoff, who was sentenced to threo years' detention iij a fortress, was r an active officer in the Navy. He was sont to Germany to watch Voncerno. PRISONER'S .ATTEMPTED .SUICIDE. (Rcc. January 21, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, January ,20. The "Cologne Gazette" asserts that official statements confirm tho report of ~~ Captain Trench's attempt at suicide and his plans to escape from the fortress where he is imprisoned for espionage.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 5
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166ESPIONAGE SENTENCES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 5
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