Evening star., 1933-11-04
D|M|TROFF AGAIN
0USTED AT TRIAL
Reichstag Fire Defendant
Clashes With Goering as
Premier Testifies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 4.-The out
spoken Georsi DimitrofY. one Of the
accused In the Reichstag nre trial. was
expelled again today after arousing the
ne OF the Gays CHIEF witness, Hermann
wilhelm Goering, who shouted that
up long ago.
The court room was turned into .
mass meeting. with the audience yell
ing Bravo" when Goering, the Prus-
sian premier and Reich minister with
out portfolio. in response to various
questions by Dimitron, new into rage
and cried:
4 order you not to put such inso:
lent questions You are Scoundrel
and ought long ago to have been at the
gallows for nrlng the Reichstas.'
Election Is Ordered.
Preldent Judge wilhelm Buenger
supported Herr Goering's view and or
dered two policemen to eject Dimitron.
Goering called after the defendant
as he was being led from the room:
You have reason enough to be afraid
when once you leave the custody OF
this court
Previously Goering in an arraign-
ment Of the Communist party. with
which Dirn;tron was connected IN his
native Bulgaria, declared that muir
der Is Conlmunism's first command
ment".
'Sadism has his home in the Com
munist party" said Goering. and cru
elites are nowhere so beastisl as when
the Communists are in a position TO
torture people"
Dimitroff had cross-questioned Goer-
Ing to bring out that in his opinion
the police went after the Communists
only to fnd the accomplices OF an
ether defendant. the young Dutchman,
Marinus van der Lubbe, who has ad-
mitted setting the IRE. The police,
Dimitron continued. did nothing TO
trace possible other perpetrators.
7 Irritated by Questions.
These questions so irritated Goering
that Dimitroff asked him tauntinsly
"Are you afraid of them?"
Goering then called all Communists
scoundrels, leading to this question by
Dimitrofi:
Are you aware one-sixth of the
world now live under communism"
Goering replied, at first impetuously,
unfortunately" but q moment later
more composedly said:
What is happening In Russia does
not concern me. am concerned with
the scoundrels who come here from
abroad to fire the Reichstag.
Nothing so crossed my plans for
the elimination Of communism as the
Communists firing the Reichstag," he
said.
MY plant was a beautiful ONE
contemplated q delay in striking the
blow until after the Reichstag election.
then nullfying the communist man
dates and on the first provocation to
I seize all the leaders, each Of whom
had committed enough crimes TO hang
them three times"
Regrets Hanging Thw.rted-
II regret extremely that certain
Communist leaders have been saved
from the gallows through the prema-
ture forcing of my hand"
Goering said he was working in the
ministry Of interior on the night Of the
fire when he learned Of the blaze.
AS I approached the police Gordon
some officer cried out incendiarisn. >"
Here the witness paused and then
continued slowly and deliberately:
When heard that word it was like
the scales dropping from my eyes It
was perfectly clear nobody but the CON-
munists could have set the fire."
Goering declared he felt impelled to
string up Van Der Lubbe that very
night, but refrained in order to find the
real wire pullers.
7 am convinced" continued Goering.
"Van Der Lubbe was caught because he
was unfamiliar with the exits. while the
accomplices escaped by way OF the
tunnel to the machine building on the
premises of the Reichstag presidents
residence"