THE BERLIN LIBEL CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 309, 6 January 1908, Page 3

THE BERLIN LIBEL CASE.

IflOUl HARDEN IMPRISONED. • Berlin, January 3. As a mult of tae re-trial 01 llerr Harden on the charge of criminal Ho.-; brought agaiint him by fount Kuno V. r, Moltke -based on certain articles in the Die Zukunft (Harden', paper) alleging intrigue ami immorality on the part m Ton Moltke and members of (he I'rine Eulenburg camarilla - defendant wa.. sentenced to four mouths' impris, n Bent*

The first trial of Herr Harden rr-iilt-d to hia acquittal. The Public Prosecutor thereupon decided to carry the case before the Landgeriebte, a court of revision. VON MOLTKES CHARACTER. DECLARED UNSTAINED. OTHER COUNTS ASKED TO STAND THEIR TRIAL Received Jan. §. -U,> p.ni. Berlin, .lanuarr 4. The President of the Court declared Count Kuno Ton Moltke emerged unstained from the Court. Nothing had been proved against Count Eulenburg. The Minister of War appealed to ConnU Lynar and William llwkniu to return and aland their trial for the sake of the honor of Germany and its fami lies.

A STRANGE OMISSION. w HARDEN APPEALS. ,"* Received Jan. 5, 4.57 pan. . _ London, January 4. «M Times refers to the Public. Proseentort strange omission to proceed ■piM* Herr Harden until the dose of ■Private action, which requires si planatins. HMfcn appeals to the Supreme Court ■guut the judgment of the Court. According to report* in English papers « the first trial (at which Herr Harden "*• "Tutted), no defence was forth costing to the evidence brought forward m to unspeakable orgies at the Till* at fwedam of Count Lynar. But the witBeta, an ex-caTalryman, who gave thiN •Wdraee, could not poaitivelv idenfifT Cowit Knno von Moltke as being prethough he swofe that Prince Sueiiburg and other members of the eaaaartUa were there, also two Princes of tte Prussian Royal Family, both «WMns of the Kaiser. When Count Knß» ron Moltke'» representative. Dm urn Gordon, addraaed the Court, he de■""■eed the Potsdam orgies in nnmea•nred terms, but declared emphatically that nothing had been introduced to JW that Count Moltke participated in ue», or to show that his intimacy with rrmre Eulenburg had been anything but Tore and ideal."