REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 9

REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL

* FATE OF VAN J)ER MJBBE NOT SETTLED TOUGLKR SENT TO CAMP 'LONDON, December 27. x Th'j "Daily Express" correspondent at Leipzig says: '•I-Iow much longer is this going to last?" asked van der Lubbc of his prison warder, who replied telling van der Lubbe of the request of the Dutch Government, for commutation of his sentence, which will postpone the decision regarding his sentence for at least a fortnight. The result of the Dutch intervention is problematical, as German law requires llio prisoner lo make the request, but van der Lubbe lemains ■ilent. It semes unlikely that he will be hanged. Van der Lubbe dejectedly pushed away a slice of Christmas cake which !he warder had brought to the condemned cell. . Hcrr Ernst Torgler will oe sent f o a concentration camp. _ I-lerr Torgler's wife has given Dr. Alfons Sack, her husband's lawyer, £IOOO, which is all her money. When she applied for State relief •■he was curtly told, "Apply to the London Commission before which your son gave evidence.' The Bulgarians will probably be expelled at the end of the week.

BRITISH PRAISE FOR VERDICT

official wiaßLSs^.; RUGBY, December 27. i Most of the newspapers comment on the verdict at the Reichstag fiie 1 trial. The '"Daily Telegraph" says: The honour of the Supreme Court, | and with it of German justice, has : been fully vindicated. The "Manchester Guardian says. ! The court had the courage to per- | form its duty of considering the evij dence on its merits.