CONDEMNED TO DEATH
FOR HIGH TREASON GERMAN CONSUL AT SUNDERLAND London, December 9. •' A.'. Ahlers, • late German - Consul at Sunderland, has been sontencoi to death on a charge of high treason. He was indicted under a statute of Edward 111,- dealing/with the levying of war against the filing. He was.naturalised in 1905. '' Ahlers stated that he was not aware ' of tho declaration of war when he assisted to repatriate reservists. His idea on August 4. was that Germany's ultimatum to Belgium would be withdrawn. Even on tho morning of August 6 nobody told him that England' was in- 1 volved. SPY CAUGHT RED-HANDED. I London', "December 9: S' Paul George Wentzell, a. German, has boon indicted at .the Assizes for- spying - and being in possession of an eleotrio hash-lamp, sketches of Grey Point, on Hash-lamp, sketches of _Gt.ey Poipt on I'ort Orlock signal-station at and drawings of the heavy guns ana. ruiaps of the harbour.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19141211.2.24.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155CONDEMNED TO DEATH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in