JUSTICE IN QERMANY.
THB POSITION OF A SPY, By Telegraph—Presi Aseoclatlon-GoDTtleht Berlin, May 13. Lieutenant Brandon, the English officer who, with Captain French (also an English officer), was in December, 1910, sentenced io four years' imprisonment in a fortress on charges of espionage, secured a verdict of 80s. damages against a newspaper for accusing him of bribing a soldier to enable him to escape.
The Court mitigated tho fine because it held that a spy was unworthy of special protection by the law.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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83JUSTICE IN QERMANY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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