DEATH SENTENCE ON STUDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19530, 13 July 1925, Page 7

DEATH SENTENCE ON STUDENTS

EXECUTIONS SUSPENDED. Pres* Association — By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, July 11. (Received July 32, .at 5.5 p.m.) A German .official analysis of the Moscow trial of Kindermann and others characterises the death sentences as a miscarriage of justice, but admits that the prisoners were guilty of certain misdemeanours. *" Germany expects the affair to be settlea by the expulsion of the accused. In the meantime the suspension of the executions is announced from Moscow pending consideration of [ictitions of mercy.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A recent message from Moscow stated that three German students, who wore alleged to have been members of the German reactionary organisation known as the “Konsul,” had been sentenced to death on a charge of plotting to assassinate Trotsky and Stalin. The Berlin * orrespondent of the Daily Chronicle stated that the imposition of the sentences had caused a sensation. Subsequently the German Government instructed its Ambassador at Moscow to protest strongly against the judgment and to demand a revision of the death sentences. Subsequently a Note from Germany requested the postponement of the execution of the German students until the report of the trial reached Berlin. A SOLICITOR’S MOTHER. The mother of a well-known Wellington lawyer, a chronic sufferer from eczema, rid herself of ihat distressing complaint by using Q-tol systematically.—Advt.