THE LEIPZIG TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1933, Page 9

THE LEIPZIG TRIAL

READ AND CONFIRMED

LUBBE'S CONFESSION

"NEW GERMAN JUSTICE"

United Pres3 Association—By Electric Teleerapli—Copyrl.ht. (Received September 30, 11.15 a.m.) BERLIN, September 29. During the Leipzig trial the President pf the- Court sprang a surprise by announcing that Lubbe, tho principal accused, would bo heard in regard to the actual laying of the fire. Lubbe adopted his usual morbid attitude, and mumbled his answers, dospite the remonstrances of tho Court. All ears were strained when the President asked: Do you admit firing the Reichstag? "Yes," muttered Lubbe, almost inaudibly. While an assistant with a lecturer's rod traced Lubbc's movements on huge coloured diagrams of the Reichstag tho President read Lubbe's confession, in which he stated that after looking over the building in the afternoon he returned at 9 o'clock at night, and climbed the main front to the balcony of the central building, where he affixed firelighters. Then he smashed a window, the curtains of which he ignited. He then lit other parts of the building, using his shirt and waistcoat for fuel. Eventually he was arrested in the Bismarck Hall after having been from fifteen to twenty, minutes within the building. ■ i , / Lubbe, replying to the President, confirmed the above statement. The trial was then/adjourned to October 14. Tho interim will bo devoted to the holding of a Jurists' Convention, when 10,000 Nazis will celebrate in triumph "the new German justice."