TRIAL OF KRUPP

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 7

TRIAL OF KRUPP

WHO CALLED OUT WORKERS?

SURROUNDING FRENCH SOLDIERS/

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIMGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN . NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON,' Stli May.

-Further, advices from Berlin in connection with' the Prupp trial state that the questions put by the President of the Court were mainly in regard to the responsibility for sounding the syren which called out .50,000 workers. Krupp said, that the sounding of the syren, should any occupation, by foreign troops occur, was insisted on by the Whole of the work r ers some considerable time before the tragedy...'No new facts "came to light in spite of long questioning, Krupp resisting all- efforts to pin him down, to a statement of individual responsibility for what happened. : .

After three other directors, Bruhn, Hartjvig, and Osterley, had denied, re- : sponsibility for sounding the syren, Mueller, a foreman, took the responsibility upon himself. Mueller said that he risked his own life to protect'the, French, and that in attempting to bring' about a withdrawal, of. the French sol-, diers, he was misunderstood by a French officer, who thought he was inciting attack upon them- He claimed that he Had done all-he could to calm the crowd.

A military interpreter, Jaeger, said he heard Mueller tell the workmen to surround the French. soldiers, so that none should escape. A French soldier, Charbroux, declared that he was obliged to use a revolver and. fired five shots. The hearing was adjourned.