TREASON CHARGE
TEN YEARS' GAOL SENTENCE. THE MAN WHO LOST THE WAR. (United Press Association—By Electric Teiegrapii—Copyright.’ (Received 1.0 a.m.) ' ■ {BERLIN, December 18. Jager, known as the man who lost the war, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. A Berlin message <,u December 5, states: Nineteen years after the first German gas attack at Ypres, Jager. a German ex-soldier is now on trial for treason at Leipzig for betraying the attack on the enemy. Evidence is based on an article by Genera! Ferry, the French commander of the sector, published in 1930, in which it is alleged that Jager gave the position of the gas batteries, and accused French generals of a failure to protect Ibe troops.
Jager denies desertion and betrayal, and claims that he strayed into the enemy’s trenches, and that the Flench deduced the imminence of the attack from the wadding guaze lie carried as part, of his equipment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1932, Page 6
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153TREASON CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1932, Page 6
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