VAN DER LUBBE ADMITS FIRING REICHSTAG

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 371, 30 September 1933, Page 5

VAN DER LUBBE ADMITS FIRING REICHSTAG

CLIMBED BUILDING, SMASHED WINDOWS, AND IGNITED CURTAINS TRIAL POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 4 FOR LEGAL CONVENTION Celebrating Triumph of New German Justice t Press Association —Copyright:. Reed. Today, 1 p.m. Berlin, September 29. AT Che Leipzig trial the president sprang a surprise by announcing that Van der Lubbe would be hea~J in regard to ihp actual laying of the fire. Van der Lubbe adopted his usual morbid attitude and mumbled his answers despite the remonstrances of ihc Court.

! All cars were strained when the j president asked, "Do yon admit firing I tho Reichstag?"

i "Yes," muttered Van der Lubbe al- ! most inaudibly. i While ;in assistant with a lecturer's j rod traced Van der Luhhe's iiujvuiih-uvs on huge coloured- diagrams of the ! Reichstag, the president read Van der j Lu'bbe's confession that after looking j over tho building in the afternoon he • returned at nine at night, climbed tho main front to the balcony of the central building, where he affixed firelighters, j He then smashed the windows, the i curtains of which he ignited. He I then lit. other parts of the building, using his shirt, and waistcoat for fuel.

Eventually he Avns arrested in the Bismarck Hall after being from 15 to 20 minutes within the building. Van der Lubbe, replying to the president, confirmed the above statement. The trial adiou'rned to October 4. The interim will be devoted to ;■, jurists' convolution, when 10,000 Nazis will the triumph of "new German justice."

NEW MORAL CODE Association. —Copyright. Received Today, 9.30 a.m. London, Sept, 29. (London Times Cable.) The Berlin correspondent of The Times says the Minister of Justice, is recommending revision of the penal code on Nazi lines. He suggests future carriages between Germans and non. arians he declared invalid and sexual relations between such persons pun. ishable. He also demands punishment for violation of racial honour, for instance, a German woman publicly dancing with;a coloured person.