GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1925, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

lUbTli-ALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION COMMUNISTS’ TRIAL. BERLIN. February 12. Remarkable allegations of high treason were made at the trial at Leipzig of the sixteen Communists, including a General of the Russian Red Army. The evidence given was that they were the agents of Soviet Russia, awl they endeavoured to start a Bolshevik C he-

lm in Germany. Nuemami. a former official of the Communist Party, whom the Communists declared to he a spy. deposed that a Revolutionary -Military Committee was formed in Germany in 1923 to purchase weapons with money supplied hv the Russian Embassy at Berlin. Neumann alleged that a meeting of Communists leaders in 1923 planned an armed outbreak, ineluding a march to Berlin, several of the Riechstag Deputies being implicated in the plotting.

The witness added that, in necord awe with instructions lie ohtauici phials of typhus ami dysentry baciil for use in food. GERMAN MINE DISASTER(Received, this clay at 9 a.m.l RERUN, Feh. 12. One hundred are missing following an explosion in the Stein mine at Dortmund. So far 30 bodies have been releovcred. Eight men were rescued alive.

GERMAN FRAUDS. BERLIN, Feh. 12. The charge,s against Ruffle include that of the acceptance of a bribe of fifty thousand marks from the deposits in 1-lamlel’s Rank, in exchange for the placing of Reich funds in the hank, resulting in a loss to the Government of half a million sterling; and that of appointing the hank a Government agent for the purchasing of gold. He is also accused of giving a ( eulris Deputy. Herr Langehegermanu. tw< million golden marks, ostensibly lot ielief purposes in occupied territory, o! which sum llerr Liingehcrgermann devoted a huge portion to his own use

A prosecution has been kninchc against several of the Dcpositents di octors. two of whom had fled abroa with Government funds. One has ai q Hired Lettish citizenship, and ill other Dutch citizenship, thus mnkin their extradition almost impossible.

GERMAN POLITICAL DEPRAVITY, tilncei'cd this day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, February 12 The “Times’* suggests that the Gerin'aii AAoiian. I lists have- been hoalcn in open light- and are now cleverly engineering political scandals, disguising party issues, under legal proceedings. Arrest follows arrest. No party, no office and tiu character is sale, though nobody yet seems to have been tried. It would he grotesque for foreigners to attempt to get an opinion of the truth or the falsehood ot the ehaige. Certainly the tone of the public life of the Reich has become sadly depraved.