FRENCH TRAITORS
EIGHT SENTENCED TO DEATH.
OTHERS IMPRISONED.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
PARIS, July 29. (Received Aug. 1, at 8.55 p.m.) The Laon informers have been sentenced as follows: —To-Que and seven others, to death; others to various terms of imprisonment, including Thomas, to one year. Six were acquitted.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
A court-martial tried 13 men and 10 'women, of whom 20 are IVench, four axe Germans, and one is Belgian. They ■were charged with communicating with the enonjy in the Laon district. Pome of them bstrayed their own relatives, alro hidden wounded soldiers, to the Germans.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17693, 2 August 1919, Page 9
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