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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 5

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RUSSO-GERMAN NEWSPAPERS. JOURNALISTS AGAIN ADMITTED. (United Picks Association—By Electric Telegraph ,'opyrighu.) BERLIN, Oct. si. The Russo-German newspaper uispute has ended. Russian journalists have been aumitted to the Reichstag fire trial arid German correspondents have been allowed to resume work in Russia. Toward the end of September Uernian newspaper correspondents, including representatives of the Wolff Agency the “Berliner Tageblatt.” and the “Lokal Anzeiger,” were ordered to leave Soviet territory within three days. The decision .was a sequel to incidents at the Reichstag fire tf lal at Leipzig, when Russian journalists were subjected to raids by polioe. No reply was received to protests from the Soviet Embassy at Berlin, which threatened the expulsion of German journalists if no assurance was given that Russian journalist's at Leipzig would not again be molested. The expulsion of German journalists causeu % sensation in foreign political circles, where it was regarded as the most serious development in Russo-German relations since the Nazi regime began. The expulsions coincided with a distinctly sharper tone in Press com ments on the Leipzig trial, which is regarded as a farcical frame-up. Those expelled included Wilhelm Baum, representative of the Wolff Agency, who was also Press Adviser to the German Embassy. Besides ordering the expulsion of German correspondents, the Soviet recalled to Moscow fovn Russian correspondents in Berlin—namely, representatives of the “Pravda,” “lzvest-ia,” and two representatives of the Tass Agency.