[?]CHSTAG FIRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 644, 23 September 1933, Page 5

[?]CHSTAG FIRE

A COMMUNIST H POLICE REPORT ening phases of trial ofnot" guilty __By Telegraph— Cnpyright). [ Leipzig, Sept. 21. esumption of the tiial in with the Reichstag fire, her he was a Communist, lbbe replied : "No." ;e(j to admit any pohtical ' by the Dutch police desas a continual agitator — archist then a communist. en frequently arrested. He his agitation in 1931, preecause he had left the ; Party. . 1 ^ Lnbbe sat lookmg dejectlitted that he left the Com1929 because he was not er of the espionage organer Socialist, May Brelkeioned regarding a telegiam ; >nibers of the Reichstag in iging that Van der Lubbe . 1 with Brelkewitz and was d by local Nazis, admitted light be misiaken as to the I ran der Lubbe laughed. j ned, he said he was langh- I trial. | Ige suggested that the j iis mirth was the statement | fas assoeiated with the j i • Lubbe insisted he was only at the trial, whieh was adaccused are charged with jon, for which the penalty ■ Lubbe's handcuffs were rehe rose to hear the charge. sr Lubbe was dressed in •b, consisting of blue trousfrayed and stained jaclcet. face sometimes took on a tinge, and there were rings iis eyes. He seemd obliviis surroundings and gave ilies to questions in a voice idible. ■, biting his thin lips, prepicture of terror and diswife watched him anxiousiree Bulgarian prisoners imote from the proceedings, if thcm understood German. end of the day a mystery as to whether Yan der is really half-witted or that lity was assumed.