On December 5, it was stated that a German ex-soldier named Jager was on trial for treason at Leipzig for betraying the attack. The prosecution was based on enemy evidence in an article by General Ferry, the French commander in the sector, published in 1930, in which it was alleged that Jager gave the position of the gas batteries to proteet their troops. A i epresentative of the Ministry of Defence, in pressing for Jager's conviction, insisted that the French took measures to reduee their losses, also mitigating the effect of the attack. Jager denied desertion and betrayal. He claimed that he strayed into the enemy trenehes and that the French deduced the imminence of the attack from a wadding pad he carried as part of his equipment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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