WARTIME EPISODE RECALLED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 9

WARTIME EPISODE RECALLED

French Family Condemned For Treason SURVIVORS APPEAL FOR REHABILITATION Dy Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received January 14, 7.20 p.m.) London, January 14. Tlie Paris correspondent of "The Times’’ says that a -special military court has adjourned for a week the hearing of an appeal for rehabilitation by members of a family condemned for high treason in war lime. The father was Louis Moreau who, past military age. continued to work as a miner at Loos-en-Youelle where his wife and sons remained, despite the proximity of .the German lines. A neighbour denounced them in November. 1914, alleging that they w.ere signalling to the enemy. A raid on the house resulted in the discovery °f„a lantern marked "made in Germany.” Louis Moreau was sentenced to live years penal servitude and died in tlie penal settlement at Cayenne. The mother was sentenced to death but this was commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment and she died in jail. The sons respectively served 10 years and live years at Cayenne and returned to France. A witness gave evidence of tlie impossibility of Germans seeing the signals from the house and the unlikelihood of the family, who were all illiterates. knowing the morse code.