SECRET TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 15

SECRET TRIAL

MUNITIONS FOR CHINA MATTER TO BE RAISED IN REICHSTAG. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 20. The ‘Daily Mail’s* correspondent at Berlin states that all tho defendants in tho secret trial have been acquitted, but the Press was not even allowed to hear the judge’s reasons. It is assumed that they were able to prove tho attempt had the approval and support of the military and naval_ authorities, but it is pointed out that in the Treaty of Versailles Germany undertook not to export arms and ammunition. ‘ Vonvaerts,’ the organ of tho Chancellor (Dr Mueller), declares that the acquittals certainly have nob ended the matter, which will bo raised in the Reichstag.

[Recently the Berlin correspondent of tho ‘Daily Mail’ stated that Republican newspapers were protesting against the secret trial, which began at Kiel on December 10, of Lieutenant Protze, of the German Secret Service, Major Seeman, and live Berlin business men, including the war-time airman, Herr Boltjcns, on a charge of attempting to ship munitions to China in January, 1928. When the Kiel _ Customs officials were examining packing eases labelled “brass goods,” which filled sixteen rail trucks, they discovered no fewer than 8.000,000 rifle cartridges about to be shipped by a Norwegian steamer.]