FRENCH COURT’S AWARD
Appeal For Rehabilitation Succeeds (Received January 21. 5 5 p.m.) Paris, January 20 Tlie sons of Louis Moreau 'tave been rehabilitated and awarded £9OO dam ages. A message dated January 1-1 stntel that a speeial military court had adjourned for a week the hearing of an appeal lor rehabilitation by members of a family condemned for high treason in war time. 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. 1911. alleging that they were signalling to the enemy. A raid on the house resulted in the discovery of a lantern marked “made in Germany.” Louis Moreau was sentenced to five years penal servitude ami died in the penal settlement nt Cayenne. The mother was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment. and she died in jail Tlie sons respectively served 10 years and five .venrat Cayenne, and returned to France. \ witness gave evidence of the impossibility of Germans seeing I lie signals from (lie house and the unlikelihood of the family who were nil illiterates, knowing th’’ morse code.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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204FRENCH COURT’S AWARD Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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