TENSE SCENES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 7

TENSE SCENES

REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL OUTBURST BY ACCUSED FIVE MONTIES IN CHAINS AN EMBARRASSED •JUDGE

(Klee. 'IVI. ('oj)yriplil —United Press Assn.) ( Received Sept. 28, 11 u.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 27.

To-dnv’s session of the Reichstag fire trial (dosed with another violent dash lief ween Dimitroff and the eoiirl, ending in guards forcing the Bulgarian down into his sent. The judges informed I limit roll that In* would be excluded from I lie court, if he uttered another word. The clash occurred while Limit roll was questioning .lodge Vogt, who conducted (the preliminary examinalion. I limit ro (V asked vehement ly : “Did yon, or did yon not, eatise the pnblieaI ion of a statement that three Bulgarians implicated in the Reichstag lire were involved in the blowing Up of Sofia ('al lied ral in 1924?”

Judge Vogt replied, hesitatingly: “Yes, there were certain inaccuracies, bii't they wen* not mine.” He admitted informing the' .newspapers that the association of Bulgarians with Van der Luhbe in tlie Reichstag fire had been proved. •‘HOLD YOUR, tongue:” The ‘ president, intervening, told Dimitrolf not to insult Judge Vogt. Dimil roff said passionately: “I myself have 'been insulted. I sat Cor five months in chains, contrary to justice and law. The penal code says prisoners must not be chained unless they are dangerous. 1 made 10 applications, ■three in writing, to have the chains removed. ’ ’

Judge Vogt first denied, and then en.fiarrasedly admitted, receiving the written applications, 1 hut declared that the law did not allow the chains to be removed. Dimitrolf denounced the examinations its inaccurate, mendacious and in Utah and was continuing his impassioned protests when the president, red-faced, shouted: ‘‘Hold your tongue. ! will not hear a word more.”

Judge Vogt, who interrogated Van der Luhbe at the preliminary inquiry, testified that he was a ready, if not tin habitual liar. He willingly explained his part in the Reichstag fire, and insisted that lie alone was responsible.

“According to the newspapers, you spoke freely to visitors yesterday, will you similarly answer the court today?” the president asked Van der Lublie. who mumbled: “As usual.”

A Swedish criminologist and n Dutch journalist testified that their visits showed no sign of ill-treatment. A policeman named iloisig, in evidence, said Van der Lublie originally freely confessed to three attempts at i ueemlia risui.

DEPORTED JOURNALISTS RUSSIAN ATTITUDE (Received Sept. 28, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, Sept. 27. M. Litvinoff luis announced that systematic German persecution or' Russian press representatives is the cause of the Soviet’s deportation of the German eorrespoiuleints and the recall of the Russian correspondents from Germany. He added: “The Soviet will not, submit to the offensive treatment ot Russian journalists. ’ ’ Resides ordering the expulsion of German correspondents, the Soviet is recall iim to Moscow lour Russian correspondents in Berlin, namely, representatives of the Pravda, and the Izvestia, and two representatives of the Tass Agency, indicating 'die Soviet’s intention to take a firmer attitude in regard to the Incidents involving Soviet citizens.