The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-01


nounced it would permit the return
of the German correspondents ex-
PEELED from the Soviet Union in re-
ply to the intolerable conditions i'm
posed by the Nazis on Soviet corre-
spondents in Germany, including the
Arrest of Soviet writers in Leipsig in
the early days of the Reichstag fire
trial.
Perjurer and Criminal On Stand
AT THE GERMAN. FRONTIER,
Oct. 81 Via Zurich, Switzerland
Another obvious perjurer, and a
criminal brought from prison to tell
a story so fantastic that the de-
PENDANTS did not bother even to
cross examine him, wers the Nazi
trump cards at today's session Of the
Reichstag building, Berlin.
Ernest Droescher, assistant to
Hanz Weberstedt, chief Of the Nazi
press bureau, who has testified to
seeing Va5sil Tanefi with Ernst
Torgler in the Reichstag the after
noon of the fire, took the stand in
an ATTEMPT to show that George
Dimitroff was also in the Reichstag
shortly before the fire.
Droescl1er SWore he had seen
Dimitroff talking with Torgler, and
that he recognized him as the man
charged with instigatilg the cath
edral explosion in Sofia, Bulgaria,
in 1928. The public records, and all
previous testimony at the trial, show
thai Dinlitroff was not in Bulgaria
at the time of the cathedral fire.
and that the man accused by the
Bulgarian authorities is q Stefan
Dimitroff, who is in no, way con-
nected with George Dimltroif.
Convict Tells Tall Tale
"Weberstedt and Droescfler have
obviously arranged between them
selves, the enc to identify Taneff,
the other to Identify me-" commented
Din1itroff. The judge sharply Or
dered him to be silent.
Gustav Lshermann, who is serv-
ing sentence for theft, was brought
to the court to testify that in Janu-
airy, 1882, Torgler had urged him to
burn the Reichstag, and that in
March Of the same year Torgler
again approached him and two others
with the same suggestion, offering
14,C00 marks reward.
He said he had not informed any..
one of this until the middle of this
month.
Torgler calmly expressed his aston
ishment that such witness should
be called before a court, and Alfons
Sack, his attorney, did not bother to
oss-exanine the man.
Dinlitroff, with unconcealed dis
gust, declared: This is the climax
OF the prosecutions caser'
Withdraw Lubbe Identification
The Reichstag elevator operators.
who had identified van der Lubbe at
the preliminary examination as a
man they had seen in the Reich
stag, took the stand to withdraw
their Identification, saying they were
no longer sure.
Schatz, an expert on. colnbustibles.
who testified some days ago, took the
stand once more to say he is now
sure that a highly inflammable sub
stance called santagol had been used.
He declared he is now certain that
he has found seven traces of this
fuel. Schatz is an intimate of Will
helm Goering, Nazi leader, and an ex-
pert in the bomb department of tho
Ministry of Aviation.
Lubhe Sought Arrest
Earlier Police Commissioner Bullgs,
who arrested van der Lube at the
scene of the fire. testified that the
young Dutch tool of the Nazis had
made no effort to escape.
Van der Luboe said he would
have let himself be captured even II
he could have got away" He added
that the young Dutcllrlan appeared
entirely intelligent when arrested. in
contrast to the stupefied appearance
which he makes at the trial.
Evidence of two walters and the
owner of Ashingers' restaurant,
wher Torgler had testified he went
soon after eight O'Clock on the night
Of the fire, at time before the fire
had started, was given.
A student named Perl who worked
as regular assistant of the Com
munist Party in the Reictstag. tes-
titled that he had arrived at the
Reichstag at O'Clock on the after
noon before the fire. carrying a pack
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