Two Men Shot

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 8

Two Men Shot

4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION

A TERRIBLE OFFENCE. QERMB OP DIBEABE SCATTERED. TYPHOID AND SLEEPINQ SICKNESS. (United Preaa Aaa.i.—Eleo. Tel. Copyright.) (Received August 2, 3.15 p.m.) PARIS, August 1. Jean Bogueneo, a free-lance contributor to numerous French newspapers, and Francois Chabrat were sentenced to death In connection with the typhoid germs allegations, and have been shot, according to a broadcast from Pamplona, which declared that they also possessed sleeping sickness germs and were working at the Instigation of an organisation with headquarters In tendon, run by members of different nationalities. The condemned men allegedly had accomplices at Bayonne, where several arrests have been made. General Franco is presenting the League of Nations and various European Foreign Offices with a detailed account of the affair. A message on July 29 stated that the Frenchmen were alleged to have been found In a frontier village carrying tubes of typhoid germs. They were reported to have confessed that each of them received iOO,OOO francs to scatter germs behind the insurgents lines. STRANGLEHOLD BROKEN. BUOCEBB OF THE REBELS. 4000 FLEEING LOYALISTS. United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel Copyright. (Received August 2, 3.15 p.m.) SARAGOSSA, August 1. Pincer operation by General Franco's troops broke the loyalist stranglehold on the rebel city of Teruel. The cavalry and infantry are pursuing 4000 retreating Republicans, capturing hundreds.