GUILTY OF ESPIONAGE
LONG SENTENCE. By Telegraph—Pross Association—CoDyrisht Vienna, February 27. Lieutenant Jandric, who was concerned in the Rcdl scandal, ha 3 been sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment. His brothoi'' Cedomyl'6 trial concerning espionage has begun.
The treachery of Colonel Redl, who committed suicide when .about to be arrested on ii charge of immorality and selling secrets to -the Russian GoVerument, was discovered by accident when, in July of last year, Lieutenant Jandric was arrested on a charge of espionage. The lieutenant's papers included a letter from the chief of a foreign espioriage bureau, directing him to receive letters from Eedl, and also a cipher. This was used for a telegram summoning Redl from Prague to Vienna. Eedl immediately went, detectives following hiin. Eedl is said to have received .£IO,OOO for his previous winter's spy work. Throughout the Balkan crisis he bad enabled Russia to reply to the movements of the Austrian forces. In fact,_ the Russian movements sometimes aiticipated the Austrian plans. Jandrio had been accustomed to meet Russian agents in a Russian church' in Vienna, and, while apparently at devotions, handed them documents.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 7
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185GUILTY OF ESPIONAGE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 7
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