DISPUTE ENDED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 9

DISPUTE ENDED

Russia and Germany JOURNALISTS RESUME (Received October 31, 7.30 p.m.) Berlin, October 31. The Russo-German newspaper dispute fans ended. Russian journalists have been admitted to the Reichstag tire trial and German correspondents have been allowed to resume work in Russia. Toward the end of September German newspaper correspondents, Including representative? of the Wolff Agency, the “Berliner Tijgeblatt,” and the "Lokal An-, zeiger,” were ordered to leave Soviet territory within three days. The decision was a sequel to incidents at the Reichstag fire trial at Leipzig, when Russian journalists were subjected to raids ]>y police. No reply was received to protests from the Soviet Embassy at Berlin, which threatened the expulsion of German journalists if no assurance was given, that Russian journalists at Leipzig would not again be molested. The expulsion of German journalists caused a sensation in foreign political circles, where it was regarded as the most serious development iu Russo-German relations since the Nazi regime began. The expulsions coincided with a distinctly sharper tone in Press comments on the Leipzig trial, which is regarded as a farcical frame-up. Those expelled included Wilhelm Baum, representative of the Wolff Agency, who was also Press Adviser to the German Embassy. Besides ordering thd expulsion of Gernian correspondents, the Soviet recalled to Moscow four Russian correspondents in Berlin—namely, representatives of the “Pravda." ‘‘lzvestia.” and two representatives of the Tass Agency.