GERMAN SPIES SHOT.
AUSTRIAN WHO LIVED IN PARIS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn - Copyright. Received Feb. 2, 11.35 p.m. London, Feb. 1. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that two of ten spies under capital sentence were shot at dawn at Moat Vincennes. One was an Austrian Major, who lived in Paris during the war by means of false papers describing him as an Irishman. He informed the Germans where the "Big Bertha" shells fell. —United Service. ["Big Bertha" was the name given to tl i long-range gun with which the Germans shelled the outskirts of Paris.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 5
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97GERMAN SPIES SHOT. Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 5
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