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Show SENTENCED 10 DIE FOR H!GHTREASON Nicholas Ahlcrs, Naturalized Natural-ized British Subject, Convicted Con-victed of Aiding Enemy. LONDON. Dec. ?. 4 -2 p. m. Nicholas j A tilers, former Gern.&ji cor. ml In Sunder- j iaixl borough, was today convicted by the i Durham as;ai of Y.iwh treason and sentence! sen-tence! to da.th. Th prand jur- cf Die Durham assizes returned a true bill apalnsi Nicholas Ahler on a charge of hlsh treason early In November. Accrdinir to the Indict -n:nt, "S'r. A hlers was naturalized In ISjS. After tr.e declaration of war he en-hxe4 en-hxe4 In hclrnp German reEervlEts leave Erjjiand for Genr.&ny. A hlers pleaded not suHtr. Th tmpor- , tance which was attachM to the cr-.fe bv the government i shown ry the fact that the eolicitor general. Sir Stanley1 Owen Buck master, personally conducte-i the prosecution. In presenting his case, Sir Stanley quoted quot-ed Ahlcrs as having adroltted to friends that he had sent back numbers of men to Germany, adding "I am a naturalized British "subject, but naturaJly I am a i German at heart." j 'That declaration," miM S'.r Stanley, ! "disclosed the whole situation. It showed ; that the prisoner had changed his citizenship, citi-zenship, but not his alleeriance. When : v.pr was railed he set out to do every- thine" tn his power to assist In the mob- ! lllzation of the German army." i Ahers went Into the witness lxx and i dr-niei that any of his actions had been ; Inspired by traitorous intentions. He ; 5ald that as soon as he was ciware of i tiie fact that war had been declared he i ceased his attempts to repatriate German reser.-leta. J That Ahlers probaoly will escape the! extreme penalty is Indicated by a state- ment issued bv the official press bureau. This statement says that the death sentence sen-tence was the only one the judge could pronounce, according to the law, on conviction con-viction of high treason, but that an appeal ap-peal from the sentence has been granted. If, on the hearing of this appeal, the statement adds, the conviction of Aiders W affirmed, the home secretary will con- 1 older the advisability of substituting for1 the death penalty a term of penal servi- tude or imprisonment. |