A SECRET SESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 10

A SECRET SESSION

MOSCOW TRIAL

FOREIGN STATES AGAIN "* MENTIONED

DOCTORS' REPORT

(United Tress Association—By Electric ' Tolegrnph—Copyright.) . .. (Received March 10, 1.20 p.m.)

MOSCOW,-March 9,

Representatives of foreign States were again mentioned in an official communique this evening regarding a secret session of the trial.

"Rakovsky, Grinko, Rosengoltz, and Krestinsky," it was stated, "testified to their treasonable spying connections jwith several officials., and representatives of several,, foreign States. Their testimony identified those representatives, as well as the States which they | represented."

Yagoda, it was added, admitted that he organised the killing, of Pieshkoy. A commission of five medical men who examined the evidence regarding ,ihe deaths of Gorky and others submitted their report, finding that the accused doctors criminally and maliciously maltreated their patients so as to procure their deaths.

Tomorrow the Court w(ill hear the speech of the Prosecutor, M. Vishinsky, in which he will demand the penalty considered suitable for each prisoner. Defending counsel will then speak on behalf of the -three accused doctors. Eighteen of the accused, who refused counsel, may speak in self-defence, after which all the prisoners will be invited to make a "last plea." M. Vishinsky will then make a final speech. The verdict and the sentences are expected to be given on March. 12.