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Show SENSATION SEEN IN BELGIAN CASE Ex Premier Admits Giving Permission to Sell Coal to Germans j BRL'SSKLS. Nov . 11 (By the AS-j .VO.lated IT.-WI 'file Ilell.in go'ern- mcnt's campaign ugulust Belgian snb-Jects snb-Jects who, during the war. ar. all (ged I lo have aided the eh my", has Just had j Ii sensational turn In the case of the( ; Earons Bvence C'oppe, father and son , who were probably the wealthiest coal I magnates in Belgium. I The two no de men were arrest, d Some months :ico, charged with assist- i ing the Germans during their occupation occupa-tion of Belgium, by turning over coal and by-prouuets to the enemy. Ilund-Ireds Ilund-Ireds of bthor Belgians, ui cased of similar sim-ilar offenses, huv been convldted and tienteuced to long prison terms. Ti sensation In th. Coppe casei '.ar.K.' the other day when the COS)r( releaS'.d t hero from prison on ba.ll .'i j ! 1.000.000 francs, each on the evidence I of Count de Brocquevllle, who w as pre- nu. r of the Beigia s government dui -J Ing it stay ; ii. -i . ip acc thai be had given Buron Coppi permission to work his mines during the German oc- cupatlpiu ;.nd jbij) coal, the Idea bengj tnat this fuQl Was to be used tor the' Ijlelglan population, who were forced . to renuiaR In tho occupied teiritor. Count ie lirocquc vdle. In an (lavlt suit, nli tl .1 to the court in the ' Coppe 's behalf, further admitted tliutl he had given the accus .1 permlssia .to sell freely their coal by-products, Siich as benzol, ai-al other tlilrus uscrl In explosives, to the Germans, as ,he n effect, thought that the Germans had so much of these anyway that a, Utile more could not do any harm. I I During the pust few months. Die I Belgian eourls have ti,,d dozM.s ..i I other cases, making short .shrift ofi the accused who were proven to hive grown rich by trading with tht- enemy i while their compatriots wore fighting oo |