Kesselring's Illness Adjourns His Trial

Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 7

Kesselring's Illness Adjourns His Trial

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) VENICE, Mar. 7. Kesseh’ing’s trial was adjourned be cause Kesselring is ill. i The court earlier directed a doctor to examine Kesselring during the ! luncheon adjournment to ascertain ! whether he was tit to continue under j 'cross-examination. | Today was his fifth day in the witI ness stand and his counsel asked the j court not to sit in the afternoon, as j Kesselring was not well, but KesselI ring himself said he was anxious to | continue. I AN ANGRY INTERLUDE He earlier apologised for •‘temper ’ temperament" after the court had rej buked him for telling the prosecutor heatedly: “I am not a young school- ■ boy to be questioned for hours about ‘ the things you ask sergeants.” j The incident occurred during close ! cross-examination of Kesselring on whether he believed he was entitled i to kill innocent people as a reprisal. LIDICE ABOMINATION j Kesselring, to a question whether ; he considered the razing of Lidice an ! abominable crime, replied: "I would ! not have done it myself, but I must i refuse to give judgment because of i lack of knowledge of the full facts." : Kesselring said panic and rage a!- ! ternated among German soldiers in | areas where partisans carried out their atrocities.