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REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL ANXIOUS FOR SENTENCE (Received Nov. 24, 2 p.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 23. Shedding Ids erstwhile lethargy, Van dor Lubhe amazed the court at the Reichstag (ire trial by making a long speech and demanding to know when sentence would be announced, “so that the others may get out of prison. I set (ire to the Reichstag; the others.had nothing whatever to do with it.” The president said: “You have only got to reveal your accomplices to ensure a speedy end to the trial.” When the president declared his disbelief that Van der Lubhe could have carried out the (ire alone, Van der' Lubhe persisted that Dimitroff, Tanei'f, Popoff. and Torglcr were not concerned with it. “I want a, 20-year sentence, or death. 1 cannot stand tins trial any longer.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 8
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