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Arsenal Clerk Sentenced London, January 18. ■William Burges, a clerk in the Woolwich Arsenal, was sentenced to a. year in the second division for communicating information which might be useful to the enemy. The judge said that neither the prosecution nor the War Office regarded the case as of extreme gravtiy. Burges, a middle-aged man, described as a second-grade computer at Woolwich Arsenal, was remanded at Bow Street on December S when charged under the Official Secrets Act that obtaining on December 3 certain sketches, documents and information which might be useful to an enemy, and communicating them to an. unauthorised . person, also with obtaining similar articles and attempting to communicate them to an unauthorised person.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 9
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118GIVING INFORMATION Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 9
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