military operations against the enemy, wherefore the Court found that, besides the criminal offence, an offence against the military power of the State was involved according to Section 327 of the Military Criminal Law.
"As far as the other two accused, Zamazal and Červinka, are concerned, the Court found that Zamazal, who had Russophil leanings and convictions inimical to the State, was, after the outbreak of war, occupied in spying out matters of military importance and conditions necessary to the defence of the State, as well as those regarding the operations of the Army. For that purpose, he collected news and and with expert knowledge, information regarding important military and strategic matters, and communicated them not only to individual persons, but also to newspapers, and especially to the Národní Listy. For similar purposes he undertook two trips to the war zone, until he was finally imprisoned on suspicion of espionage. Zamazal was in contact with the Národní Listy through the secretary of the paper, Vincenz Červinka, who, as has been proved, was, by means of a fiictitious address, corresponding via Rumania with individuals abroad who were guilty of high treason (Pavlů and others). According to the opinion of experts in military science, the circumstantial evidence—as, for example, the fact that Červinka in a letter advised Zamazal to collect
