The Archive · 1936

German Novelist Given Four Years for Spying

London, Mar, 9.

Dr, Merman Gorlz, the German novelist, charged with' having obiainoda plan of the Royal Air Force station at Manston calculated to be useful 9 an enemy, and conspiring with Martane Emig, a German gil, to commit offences against the Om-dal Secrets Act, was found guilty fon both counts at the Old Bailey to-@ay and-was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, 'A high War Office official deposed that one of the alleged documents found described that one of accused's war-time tasks was to ascertain the Organization and development of the American air force operating on one of the fronts—Reuter.

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