GERMAN MUNITIONS FOR CHINA
DEFENDANTS ACQUITTED
JUDGE’S REASONS NOT DIVULGED TO PRESS
(Rec. December 20, 11 p.m.)
London, December 20.
The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Berlin states that all the defendants in the secret trial have been acquitted, but the Press was not even allowed to hear the Judge's reason’s. It is assumed that they were able to prove that the attempt had the military and naval authorities’ approval and support, regarding which it is pointed out that in the Treaty of Versailles Germany undertook not to export arms and ammunition. Chancellor Muller’s organ, “Vorwaerts,” declares that the acquittals certainly have not ended the matter, which will be raised In the Reichstag. (The trial began at Kiel on December 10, of Lieut. Protze, of the German Secret Service, Major Seeman, and five Berlin business men, including the war-time airman, Herr Beltjens, on a charge of attempting to ship munitions to China, in January, 1928.)
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 11
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