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...what was called the first actual trial on charges of spreading disease germs in warfare, two Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
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