COMMUNISTS ON TRIAL.
ALLEGED HIGH TREASON. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BERLIN, Feb. 18. There was a remarkable revival of interest to-day in the trial at Leipzig of .sixteen Communists, who are charged with high treason, when Skoblevsky, said to be a general of Russian Red Army, gave evidence. He persisted that he was a simple mechanic, and had no part in any plots. He admitted, however, that he knew a
Russian girl, Maria' Shipava, who was employed in the Russian Embassy, though hitherto he had denied this. Skoblevsky explained his knowledge of German, saying that he was educated in a German orphanage at Riga. He denied categorically every statement of the witness Neuman, a former official of the Communist Party, whom Communists declared to be a spy.
The court thereupon asked Neuman if he could not have been mistaken regarding Skoblevsky’s identity. Neuman replied: “This is the man I saw in the Russian Embassy. I was told he was General AVolff, the deliverer of Cronstadt. How can I be mistaken when I saw him at the embassy- at first daily and then twice and three times weekly from ruary, 1924?’’ The hearing of the ease was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 February 1925, Page 5
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