[?]REICHSTAG FIRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5

[?]REICHSTAG FIRE

Rffi (British Official Wireless)

Hinquiry ofens ^Biependent commission national lawyers h investigating m sitting in london

Hn Rugby, Sept. 14. |K burning- of the German Reich^Bbuilding, in connection _ with Wm tt,e prisoners are to be tried at Hq- next week, is being investiH in London by a self-appointed ■ission of jurists from the Unit^Bates of America, Sweden, Hl, England, Switzerland, DenBeigium and Holland. The Miission is not a court in any sense Has no official standing. This was Hasised when at the reception of Bembers given by Mr. Pritt, K.C. Hhairman of the commission said Hit had been established by varBLeopIe intcrested in the canse of He who were anxious that the Leipzig shiuld not proceed assistance being' pnt forward Hhalf of the prisoners. H'j : anticipated the inqury will be ^Buded by Monday, and a report j ^■mmediately be made public. H Preparing for Trial ■ a little room behind the law B International Legal ComRon of Inquiry considered the Hing of the Reichstag. It hopes j Mublish its.finding before the ac- ■ trial begins at Leipzig on SepKer 21. Hjie Evening Standard asserts that ^Kjerman Government has i n qu i i Ht the Foreign Office if the ReichRfire inquiry ha? been undertaken Hthe official British prompting and ■rtion. Kc reply made it- plain that the ^Kernnient has not the slightest Reefton therewith. H js understood Prince Bismark Rje the inquiry 011 behalf of the Rnan Ambassador, and he was told R: the Government neither sancRed the proceedings nor was assoc■d with them. The Law Society Rlarly dissociates itself from the Reedings. R Meeting Privately Bhc tribunal's original request to ■in the Parliamentary offices was ■sed as they are meeting privately Rmy gathering is entitled to asBble in Britain. In accordance of Bright of free speech the proceedB are soniewhat embarrassing beBse a number of leading Socialists Buding Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., of B House, and Miss Ellen Wilkin-ex-meinbers of the House of Bmons are prominently associated Bi the trihunal, while the inquiry Bjenerally considered to be under ■ng Cimmunist inspiration. Bhe Evening Standard declares it B mock trial which cannot be disBuished from a theatrical performBe. The term "commission" is mis■ding, as the proceedings are a Bce and the "trihunal" is deliberateHdepriving itself of the knowledge Bwhat is the German Government's He. The paper concludes. ■'The international busybodies are H animated by sympathy for the H.'s but are abusing British hospital- ■ solely for propaganda purposes. Kluch interest lias been manifested Hthe fire of the Reichstag. The Nazis H'im that it was caused by ComHnists, and Herr Torg'ler, the lead- | of that pavty, has been arrested, Kd is to be charged with the deed. Hmmunists, liowever, aver that the ■e was deliherately planned by the izis with the ohieet of blaming the immunists for the crime.