CHARGE OF TREASON.
FORMER GERMAN SOLDIER. TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Received December 19, 11.20 a.m. BERLIN, Dec. 18. An ex-German soldier, Jager, known as “the man who lost the war,” was sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude. Jager was tried at Leipzig for allegedly betraying a gas attack upon tho enemy at Ypres. Tho evidenco was based on an article by General Ferry, the French commander of the soctor, published in 1930, in which it is alleged that Jager gave tho position of tho gas batteries, and which accused French generals of failure to protect their troops. A representative of tho Rcichswohr in tho Ministry pressed for Jager’s conviction and insisted that' the French took measures to reduce their losses, also mitigating tho effect of the attack. Jager denied desertion and betrayal. Ho claimed that ho strayed into the enemy’s trench and that the French deduced the imminence of an attack from the wadding pad that he carried as part of his equipment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 19 December 1932, Page 7
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162CHARGE OF TREASON. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 19 December 1932, Page 7
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