Berlin, July 21.
Penal servitude for life, with loss of civil rights, was the sentence passod by a. secret "chamber of the People's Court to-day on Herr' Wale ter Schwerdiseger, 25-year-old editor of the "Boersen Zeitung." Only the bare announcement.of the sentence was published in the official news agency.
Tt is\ understood, however, that Herr Schwerdtseger, who had friends among foreign diplomats and press correspondents, was charged with having revealed to them the contents of orders given by. Dr. - Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, at the daily conferences at the Propaganda Ministry. During these conferences, editors are instructed on the treatment of news both ay regards its presentation or omission, Reuter.
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