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Show Belgian Officer Reveals Facts He Sold as Spy By WILLIAM PARKER BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 10 (INS) Disappearance of a newly Invented Belgian machine gun led eventually to the arrest of Lieutenant Joseph Pombret, 44, of the Belgian army; hii red-haired red-haired mistress, Simone Pirlot, and Hugo Lutger, 44, a German, as leaders of Belgium's spy ring. Today all await trial, postponed because Belgium does not desire to provoke Interna- C tlonal compllca- jpy King. t)on, now. Finnl How Dombret r i ii u WM ,ble to carry Article complete 100 pound machine ma-chine gun, and turn It over to the agent of a "foreign power" Is a mystery. But there Is little mystery mys-tery as to how he started his traitorous work. Dombret, hard-pressed financially, financial-ly, was approached by a man who gave his name as Lutger and, according ac-cording to Dombret, requested the total of Belgium's standing army, the total in event of mobilization and location of th greater part of the force. Tha figures were said to have been supplied and Dombret now no longer was short of money. According Ac-cording to his alleged confession, i he received from Lutger more than 100.000 francs ($2500). The next demand on Dombret was detailed Information concerning concern-ing the northern passes through the Ardennes mountains, military defenses established there, and secret se-cret details of the Albert canal-Belgium's canal-Belgium's "Maglnot line" defenses. de-fenses. This Information Dombret Is asserted to have sold to the "foreign power." Th documents presented by Magistrate Ries of Liege In this rase astounded the Belgian military mili-tary officers. How was Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Dombret enabled to sell military mili-tary secrets which were ordinarily not available to him? Did he have accomplices In the armyT Not at alL The Belgian military authorities proved to their own satisfaction sat-isfaction that Lieutenant Dombret and he alone was In the pay of a "foreign power." Dombret had captivated the red-haired red-haired Simone. and had wandered about Various military depart-menta depart-menta gathering such secret information infor-mation as he knew he could sell to the "foreign power," according to his confession. |