Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Poles on Trial
AdmitKi||inqs,
Russians Say
Judges Told Group
Also Has Confessed
Anti Sabotage
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. June 1o.-The sec
rotary of the military collegium
Of the supreme court told the
Judges today that Maj. Gen
Bronislaw Okulicki and others OF
the Is Polish leaders had con-
fessed to a long list of charges
including killing 594 Russian
officers, anti-Soviet espionage
and comforting with the Ger
mans.
Twelve of the defendants con-
fesSed. These included the four
leaders, Gen. Okulicki; Jan Jankow-
ski, vice premier: Adam Bien, for
mer Warsaw judge, and StanislaW
Jasiukowicz, former member of
Parliament. Three others confessed
to portions of the charges. The
youngest member of the accused Is,
z. Stypulowski, a Warsaw lawyer,
did not plead guilty.
The CRAVING Okulicki. who headed
the Polish home army of the London
Polish government after the sur
render Of Sen. Tadeusz (Borp
KomoroWski, land his fellow de-
PENDANTS heard the charges without
emotion. One of the 16 accused
Poles was i'll and did not attend.
The trials were held III the same
blue-walled hall of the labor build
ing where the Trotskyist purge
rio1c !, al y
judge, Vastly V. Ulrich, presided.
May Ask Death Penalty.
Okullchi was accused of possessing
at the time of his arrest by the Red
Army document in which he de-
clared that in the event of a Soviet
victory over Germany, England
would have to form a Western. Euro
pean bloc to combat the Russians.
The document was said to assert
that Germany and Poland should
be in the bloc
Indications were that the Red
Army prosecutor would ask the
death penalty at least in some
cases.
The secretary of the court said
Okulicki had confessed to sending
the message about the European
bloc over one of the many radio
stations which the Red Army took
from the Is Poles on trial He
quoted the message as saying:
In case of victory of the USSR
over Germany, not only Englands
interests but all of Europes will
be threatened"
Seeks to Call British Officer.
The court took under Amusement
request from the general that a
list of witnesses be called. including
an unspecified officer of the British
military mission in Moscow.
The Poles sat immobile through
the lengthy reading of the charges,
which included allegations of con-
spiracies engaged in by the general
staff of the Polish London govern
ment against the Russian Army.
Each of the Polish defendants
marched into the chamber accom-
panied by a Red Army guard
Okulicki, principal defendant
wore a dark blue suit. He looked
sternly ahead as he led the march
to the bar. All his colleagues wore
civilian dress. Most looked old or
middle-aged, although one ap-
peared to be 20 or 30.
Will Defend Himself.
Okullcki announced he would de-
fend himself. Seven Soviet lawyers
were seated before the Polish box,
available for use if asked
The charges alleged that Presi-
dent Sosnokowski of Poland's Lon
don regime and Okulicki agreed
that weapons, print shops. radio
stations and ammunition should be
preserved for resisting the Red
Army. The charge said the group
of accused Poles carried on con-
sistent anti-Soviet and anti-Red
Army activities.
The prosecution asserted that the
Soviet Union had decided an order
from the Polish government in exile
in London on December IA, 1914, in
which Poles in Poland we're ordered
to hide the home staff and create
an illegal organization to hide arms
in preparation for a further strug-
gle. Terrible reprisals were alleged
500 TRIAL Dooe AIN,