DISEASE GERM CARRIERS SHOT
(Keceived 2, 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 1. Jean Bougennec, a freelance contributor to numerous French newspapers, and Francois Chabrat were sentenced to death and have been shot, according to a Pamplona broadcast which declared they also possessed sleeping sickness germs and were working at the instigation an organisation with headquarters in London run by membefs of different nationalities. The condemned men allegedly had accomplices at Bayonne where several arrests have been made. General Fronca is presenting the League of Nations and the various European Foreign Offices with a detailed account of the affair. A message on Friday stated that these Frenehmen were alleged to have been found in a frontier village earrying tnbes of typhoid germs. They are i .orted to h--"3 confessed that each of them reeeive 100,000 franes to scatter germs behind the insurgents lines.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 7
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141DISEASE GERM CARRIERS SHOT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 7
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