DRAMATIC TRIAL.
DONETZ REVOLUTION
Soviet " Justice" Is Fully Expected. GERMANS PREPARED. (Australian and .N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, May 18. The British United Press Association's Moscow correspondent says tliat beneath the blaze of cinema arclights, with loud speakers gaping from the walls, the trial has begun in the Trade Union Hall of three Germans and 50 Russians, charged with the economic counter revolution at Donetz. Professor Visliinsky presides over a bench of live, two of whom are workmen and one a Donetz miner. Evidence, which concerns the accuseds' relations with the French and Polish Governments, is being taken secretly. The Prosecutor' sarcastically rejected a request to summon a German witness, saying that if any employers came they should be as prisoners, not as witnesses.
The penalty, if guilty, is death. The Soviet Press foreshadows harsh treatment. The newspaper "Isvesta" declares the Donetz affair was a prelude to an open aimed attack on the Soviet.
The Berlin newspapers prepare their readers for a farcical trial, the result of which will certainly be inimical to (jiennano-Russian relations.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 19 May 1928, Page 9
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