GERMAN ITEMS
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ITALY’S REPLY TO NOTE. ROME, .May 10. The reply to tho German Note is to lio delivered next Saturday. It is understood it will declare that while the Government considers the German offer insufficient, it favours the opening of negotiations in order to break down the deadlock concerning tho reparations. AWARDED MILITARY SENTENCES PARIS, May 10. Tho trial has just, ended at Dtisxeldorf of a gang of professional saboteurs who, tho French allege, belonged to a secret organisation called the “Death Committee" founded with the purpose of doing all the damage possible in the Ruhr. It. was stated that the gang was composed.mostly of ex-convicts who stuck at nothing to carry out the —orders of their superiors. Among their exploits was the dynamiting of stations and bridges, train wrecking, murders by poisoning, and bludgeoning. Their headquarters, according to the French authorities, was at one time in a Krupp factory, hut latterly they removed to a town in unoccupied Germany. Schlngetter. aged 37. formerly an artillery officer, tins the leader of the. gang. lie was sentenced to death. Others received long terms of imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1923, Page 3
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