NEARING THE END

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1933, Page 6

NEARING THE END

THE REICHSTAG EIRE TRIAL

FINDING NEXT SATURDAY,

(United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.)

LEIPZIG, December 16

Herr Sachs, head of the Reichbank, 'in a four and a ‘half hour speech, urged Torgler's acquittal. Dimitroff declared the Court should recognise the innocence of Popoff, Taneff, Torgler and himself. He said he regarded van der Lubbe as a misused fool of enemies of the workers. The sentences will be promulgated o n December 23.

beds PROTEST against TRI^'L

JEWISH BOYCOTT DECIDED ON

(Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 17

Two hundred East End Communists, including women and children, marched to the German Embassy to protest against the Reichstag fire trial. they charged, through the police cordon, but reinforcements made a baton chaige, scattered the demonstrators, and arrested several.

.A minor clash in Regent Street resulted in the arrest of the bearer of a red flag.

Eventually Alan Thomas, secretary pf the International Labour Defence, accompanied by a colleague, was permitted to enter the Embassy alone, and lodge a petition, but he was not a!-’ lowed to see the ambassador.

Subsequently Black Shirts and Com munists clashed in Trafalgar Square, 'Mounted police dispersed the crowd-

« At Whitechapel, a meeting of fifteen hundred Jews resolved to boycott German goods for a week, beginning January 14, to be accompanied by a house ..to ,hous e canvass in order to ensure Jew 6 throughout England participating.

Doctor M. Gaster declared Germany was arming, France trembling, and Britain hesitating, hut the Jews were disarming Germany by cutting her economic nerve.