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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1933, Page 6

TRIAL ENDING

AI f) NKHO U SE'-S FURTHER 1 OUTBURST.

PROSECUTOR'S FIERY SPEECH

(United Press Association—By T Metric

Telegraph—Copyright)

-MOSCOW, April 16. (“'Those answer,-; don’t satisfy me,” cried o.lr Monkhousa, the New Zealander, springing to bis Let after a black-bearded .Slav had j-ead the Court’s n-plie.s, : lo his technic:.! questions, two of which .were disallowed. The answers included an assertion that the turbine at Ivanovo failed to fulfil the guaraiitc-e, and that the Vickers’ employees neglected to correct defective blades.

“I would like- to ai'giq, some points,” continued ,Monkliou-se. ‘‘Yon should have notified Areo,; if we didn’t fulfil the guarantees.”

. Tlie Prosecutor. M. Vyshinsky, entered with a bulky brief ease, yawned, glanced at his watch, drank a glass «f Russian tea brought by a guard, and then began a. ..perfervid speech. f ‘M T e are approaching the end of the trial. Wc shall soon have accurate results. Our enemies tried to press

ns too hard. They lost patience. 1 hope the result is a blow to (them. They forgot- they wer p dealing with the Soviet, which'won’t allow anyone to interfere with its internal affairs."

AT. Vyshinsky, his face mor e and more hectic, punctuated his sentences with downward chops of the left hand a« ,he yoiW.vasted Air Wa'*e.r t Rnnciman's and Mr O. M. Patrick's views of Russian justice.- He alleged that Britain had practised the third degree in India and also in the Bsillio-Rtewart case. He added: “We hav e the only true justice in the world.”

iM. Vyshinsky acensyd AlonkliousC and Thornton of attempting to insult the Court in accordance with London instructions, and'ridiculed the allegations that they were subjected to the third degree or a frame.up. M. Vyshinsky added : “Oleinik and Alnie Kutusova are the most detestable ei -Russia's enemies The- Russian accused are natural sabouteu-i's, but they cannot be pardoned. The .Soviet dots hot 'fear them. Moakhouse’s and Thornton’s crimes (are too disgusting for •words. They are worse than the Russian prisoner’s.” The Cous’t here Indulged in twenty minutes’ recess.

VYSHINSKY’S’ ’ SUAIMING UP

GREGORY ALONE NOT GUILTY

(Received this day at 11.30 a .in.) MOSCOW, April 17. The .faces of Thornton and MacDonald wore noticeably strained, and Al% Monkhon’^c''looked paler and' care tworn 'when the Dm I” restim'td.-Vvshin- . sky. produced a minor sensation, re,marking,- apparently refparing to Greg's pry. ii- ,: I arif'imceT'tahY "about the' guilt of on o .'accused,- and I ~.will discuss him la,ter.'’'' ; • '( A c-\. w..He described -•’AlacDomahl as an experienced'. clcVcr, secret “service agent qalight- red handed in sabotaging, but and brave in confessing. v| A‘.Griser -has-j;confessed being a sabotage.nr and/.isilcret agent. I will .ask for the severest punishment for him.”. There wajf a commotion when j Vyshinsky, relWcd to John as vvoYking dike V a crack secret agent j i (lushny jumped up and shoiAed “I ,did hot do any spying.” Aiter the adjournment Vyshinsky .direetdd his main attack on Thornton. He. once turned-wrafhfu'ly towards him and exclaimed.: “You’ll be of no use in Russia or'.England. Perhaps you’ll be us; d as ma'.viire for ou r Soviet fields somewhere.”’ ;

I Continuing he declared : “All prisoners are guil.ty except Gregory, and all deservg death, but our courts ale not revengeful, Nevertheless, if this Court considers it necessary to order that extreme - measure, your hands must not shake.’' 'He .added that he saw n o ' reason -to uphold the eh: rgos against Gregory who had not banned the Soviet, but the punishment of Mac-1 Donald, : Monkliouse. Notdall and Cnshiiy j must be as--'severe as -possible. The J Court, in deciding it s verdict must j remember that the Soviet did not seek | b'ood vengeance, but defence from -a j Socialist, revolution. I

MACDONALD WAS TORMENTED

LONDON, April 16.

The city was cloaked in white after an .overnight snowstorm when the trial of six British • -engineers—Alan Monkhouse. W. -H. • Thornton, \Y. H. Macdonald, Charles Norchval], John Oshny

and C. ’Gregory—on charges of mac-nine wrecking;, espionage and bribery, was .pesinned'; staters a Mosco-w message. Monkhouse's counsel, M. Kojumov, requested the Court’s ruling as to the admissibility of ten -technical quest-ions submitted by ,Monk house. M. Ulrich, the President of the Court, disallowed two iif thol .questions (referring to jtvletropoMtlm Vickers macliiuery, declining emphatically that the company was not 0 n trial, but only individual;.

The session lasted an hour and adjourned at 5 p.in. Th c Riga correspondent of ‘‘The Times” emphasises the grave anxiety regarding what iiar, boea happening to Macdonald during intervals in the O.G.P.U. prison and adds: “Ho certainly has been tormented. Foreign -..observers.' consider his plight to be desperate, and only extraordinary Bi-it-,i.sU'. pr.(YsSur 0 can save him, because t?c 6 0-Q.:I--L t . <loe s not allow disciplined pr.jfjipir.ers to c-scape who-have rebelled ip-jfipen Court.jig-specxiady in gn .important' trial:”: ’ . . !