GERMANY: Cheka Trial

The German Cheka Trial, which has occupied the Supreme Court at Leipzig for several months (TIME, Feb. 23), was ended. Three Bolsheviki were condemned to death, 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying between 6 months and 15 years for murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic. When the three men heard their death sentences, they cheered for Moscow.

In the course of the trial, it was established that the Russian Embassy in Berlin has been used as headquarters for Red revolutionaries, that vast...

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