GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1928, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

JUDGMENT ON FORGER

BERLIN. Feb. 2. The Court, in passing judgment on Sehreek, described his activities as within a hairsbreadth oi creatin'! a most serious international complication. The charge was that of selling forged military documents to a foreign power. 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 submission of photographs thereof to other powers is believed to have hampered the negotiations at Locarno and Germany’s entry into the League. The trial proved that Sehreek was the instrument of sinister forces, whose purpose was to prevent European reconciliation. The Public Prosecutor did not believe the conspiracy was of German origin, but who used Sehreek as a would probably never be revealed. Koch was sentenced to tewnty months, and Schultz to four and a-half years. THE SERGT.-MAJOR’S WEALTH. BERLIN, Feb. 2. The Public Prosecutor of Oldenburg states there is no evidence to justify the prosecution of the British sergeant--major. His estates were acquired during the inflation period. The authorities despite the local gossip, do not believe his wealth originated from British wages for treachery. The “Deutsche Zeitung ” says the suspect carried on business at Alliorn as a dealer in provisions and spirits, wherein immense fortunes were made after the war.