GERMAN SPY CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19782, 4 February 1928, Page 5

GERMAN SPY CASE

THE COURT'S JUDGMENT Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, February 2. The court, in passing judgment on Schreck (declared to bn the most dangerous spy in Europe), described his activities as being within a hairs breadth of creating a most serious international complication. _ The charge was of selling forged military documents to a foreign Power, and these suggested, a military conspiracy in Germany to defeat the disarmament provision of the Treaty of Versailles. The Polish General Staff accepted the documents as genuine, while the submission of photographs of these to other Powers is believed to have hampered the negotiations at Locarno, and Germany’s entry into the League. The trial proved that Schreck was the instrument of sinister forces, whose purpose was to prevent European reconciliation. The Public Prosecutor said he did not believe that the conspiracy was of German origin, but who used Schreck as a puppet would probably never he known. Schreck was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, Kock to twenty months’, and Schultz to four and a-lialf years’ imprisonment.