GERMAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1933, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS

LEIPZIG TRIAL DRAMATIC SCENES. (Ur'ted Press Association- —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LEIPZIG,, Sep'iembcr 23. Looking more pale and apathetic than e-vet, Vanderlubbe, through his refusal of food, looked in danger of collapse. Consequently, at counsel’s request, a doctor sat alongside him. There was' a dramatic (moment when Dimitrovia was cross'examined. He sifd ■ lie, bad seen reports'that he had been sentenced to death in Bulgaria in his absence for leading an armed hand after lie had been sentenced for life for an insurrection in 1827. Dimitrova heatedly protested there wa-s injustice at the rejection of five lawyers whom he had nominated. , Dimitrova provided sensation after sensation. Sometimes he addressed the Court like a political meeting, continually gesticulating, and often shouting. He denounced the police methods of investigation, causing the Judge to explode with anger and to threaten to exclude, Dimitrova from the rest of the trial 'if he did i net behave himself. Charged with discrepancies between his testimony to-day and, his. prelimnary examination, Dimitrova denounced the examination as mendacious because, he staid, the police wanted “to frame me up as an incendiary!’ The President angrily interjected:.'“l repudiate that.’’ Popoff spoke in a quiet high-pitched voice. He was soberly dressed in black, and contrasted w.tli Dimitrova. He answered easily and suavely. He .admitted joining the Bulgarian Communists at the age of 20. He denied lie had been prosecuted. He said he bad not participated in armed insurrections’. At. the trial, Heisig, a police official, who examined Variderlubbe after the fire, said he freely admitted firing- the, Reichstag •to awaken the workers to I ’revolt, and was willing to abide by the consequences. 1 ■Tdrglers wife told jbrirnalisbs that she is sure her husband will be fairly tried; "■ " • . : yf. /

HUNCER STRIKING : LEIPZIG, September 24. Lugge is striking. The prosecution says the motive is to break up the trial. The court physician declares if Lubbe. persists, it will be necessary ;to consider forcible feeding.

ANTI-EMPLOYMENT MOVE , , BERLIN, Sept. 23. Dr Goebels, a Nam leader, has inaugurated a gigantic anti-unemploy-ment campaign, He declares: “If we fail, we will not last long. We hope there will be no unemployment by 1835. Two million have already returned to work'. Two hundred thousand should return ' by the -summer of 1934.” He added: “Anyone from Paris, London, or New York, is free to visit any concentration camp, or any . factory. They can go anywhere. We have no war except against unemployment.’’ General Ludendorff’s Ta.nnenberg League has been forbidden, as it allegedly contains Communists, and is therefore dangerous to the State. Chancellor Hitler has ordered that new. maps must el minate the German State frontiers; and must depict one Reich of thirty-seven , provinces.

NAZI OUTRAGE ' t AX APOLOGY MADE LEIPZIG, September 22. Madame Lili Kith, correspondent of the soviet newspaper “Izvestia,.” and M. Bespalov, correspondent of the Tnss Agency (Russia), were summoned their respective beds .at seven o'clock in the morning and taken to police headquarters, where they were stripped and searched for weapons and documents. .. '■ A plainclothes man aroused M. .Bespalov and a . ■policemans at the . dctor levelled a .revolver and threatened to shoot him,, if rn escape was attempted. The, journalists were detained until one o’clock, when Herr Hirschfeld, the Secretary iof the Russian Embassy, secured their relase. * , The police chief profusely apologised, saying that a suborbinate had acted without orders. Herr Hirschfeld is not • atisfied and will report the matter to i he Ambassador. Russian.journalists are not admitted jto the trial of the- alleged “firebugs,” arousing bitter comment in the Soviet Press, , AN EFFORT IN BRITAIN. (Received this day at 11.1.5 a.m.) LONDON, - Stcptember 24. The “Referee” Hitler is about to . begin an intensive secret propaganda cairntoagn in England. His. emissarv. Otto Bene, has arrived, .and is nrovidPd with ample funds for the Nazification of Britain.