ESPIONAGE.
JUDGE DEPRECATES SPIRIT OF YENGEANC]|. !. .; ;
IS ESPIONAGE CRIMINAL?
London, February 11. Mr Justice Burling, injuipiming up in the Grosse case, urged the jury -not .to -act,in a spirit of vengeance. .He said espionage, tended to inflame hostile feeling 'between nations, and might' lead to war. The continuance of'peace demanded the cessation of such provocation. Severe punishment was. the only deterrent.
The Chronicle states that the sentence is harsh, and that Mr Justice Darling treated the spy as a hardened criminal.. l.j;
AN ITALIAN ACQUITTED,
(Received 12, 8.55 a.m.)
Barsanti, an Italian, has been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment at Leipzig for bribing soldiers to sell service revolvers, but he was acquitted on a charge of espionage.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 40, 12 February 1912, Page 5
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117ESPIONAGE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 40, 12 February 1912, Page 5
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