SPIES COURTMARTIALLED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2598, 21 October 1915, Page 5

SPIES COURTMARTIALLED

ONE SHOT AND TI-IE OTHER IMPRISONED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 19. Tho Secretary ol' State for War (Lord Kitchener) announces that t;.yo prisoners, charged with espioivago, wero court-martialled in Loudon on September 28 and 30 last, and found, guilty. Olio was sentenced to death, which was carried out this morning. The other to penal servitude for five years. THE IRON HAND IN BELCIUM. FIVE DEATH SENTENCES. Amsterdam, October 19. General von Hissing has placarded tho Belgian town halls with notices announcing the sentences imposed by courts-martial in cases of espionage charges. Five, death sentences were passed. . . They comprised Miss Oavell, the Countess Jeanno de Belleville, Madame Thulic/i (a French teacher), Philippe Dany (an architect)., and M. Soyerin (a chemist). Jl'oiu* otlievs_, including u woman, were sentenced to fifteen jeais hard labour. , The I'riivccss Maria de Croy broke an umbrella over a German officer's back for insulting her At Ostein!, and was eonteneed to leu years' hard labour • Tltroo .Belgian" and a. fe'rwiplnvotiiiiii were saateuced to death ill other places.

MORE MEN PROM CANADA DOMINION 7 REALISES THE VASTNJGSS OF THE TASK. t ByTeiegrapK-Presfi Associatlon-Oojjyr&ht ( limes and! Sydney "Sim" Services.) (Rec. October 20, £.5 p.m.) . London, October 19. Hie "Times" correspondent at Toronto states that the newspapers are urging that moro troops should bo enrolled in Canada, in view of the magnitude of tho struggle; also that there should bo no further requests for loans from Britain. He urges a supply of ever-increasing men, with mcney, equipment, and maintenance worthy of a Christmas greeting from Ottawa to tlio other Parliaments of tho Empire. Tho Canadians are profoundly impressed with the Australian casualties at the Dardanelles. "No other fact has eo much convinced us that greater exertions and sacrifices aro necessary."