SWABODA FREED
BY THE GERMANS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, December [2l
The Daily Mail says: Since the British Army left the RhineTanu last week, the Germans have released sixteen men and women who had been sentenced by the British Military Court, including Franz Swoboda, who murdered a New Zealand soldier Cyril Cromar, at Cologne, in February 1919. Swoboda was the leader of a gang who were terrorising the German women that were accompanying the British soldiers.
After the shooting of Cromar, Swoboda escaped to unoccupied Germany, hut he returned to Cologne in 1- 25. and he was arrested. A death sentence was passed on him by the Court. This was commuted to a sentence of imprisonment for life. The majority of those liberated are girls who were sentenced for disobeying deportation orders.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 2
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