A German Traitor
TBMPTED BT A RUSSIAN ATTA enaniK pats the penalty. By <M>le.—Press Association.—Oopyri/nt Received 18, 11.30 p.m. ! Berlin, July IS. PohL who was sentenced to a long term and to deprivation of civil rights fOT selling military plants to a foreign Power, received a salary of £B4 per annum. He vras employed at clerical work in the military engineering headquarters, and thus had access to plans. De#iring money with a view to marrying, he sold the plans of Pillau Boven fortress to Colonel Basaroff, the Russian attache, for £26. Basaroff asked him for plans of the fortifications of Heligoland and Barkum. Pohl secured sketches, and arranged a ' meeting with Basaroff, but was arrested in the interval.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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118A German Traitor Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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