NEW FRENCH GUN
SPY’S EFFORT TO SECURE MODEL.
PARIS, May 8
;j. who triedn to;iQ))tain aj;ino<lel of f %htv latest French machine-gun has been sentenced by the Correctional Tribunal- at Chambehy to. ftvfe; 1 yWiS’ imprisonment, ten years of. police supervision, and a fine of . I,ooo.,,francs (i 8 at; par). ry i
■ Tftfr ; prisoner, Achille Vallee, got into conversation in a cafe- with / a soldier Hot the Chamber? garrison, and promised that'he--would pay handsomely for a speeimne of the new machine-gun., iA-t tlie same time .he suggested that it lie' soldier having ■ earned = 0ut.... his /mission, .'shbuld*desert. j-i -• >, m- ■ The soldier made a pretence of accepting tha-j ./an ; inter-view-for the following.clay. But or* returning to barracks, he reported ' the, im-idciit to an officer, wlio instructed; hitn to beep the: appointment. ) -But at the,-next.,interview' two police; present, and arrested Vallee--on the -double charge, pf espioh* hge 'and incitement io,,desertion, f The cAse'was heard in-camera,
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 8
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