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Show I Empire Aroused Over Hearing. Seven Men Accused ef Smuggling Smug-gling Anarchistic Literature Litera-ture Into Russia. r Interest Hftd Been. Directed to the Case Through Debates in Reichstag-. BERLIN, July 1G. A trial which the Prussian authorities began July 12 at Koenlgsberg, at the instance f the Russian Government, against seven So-Hal-Democrats accused ot smuggling anarchistic literature Into Russ-la, attracts at-tracts very great attention. The newspapers throughout Germany are printing columns ot verbatim reports re-ports of the testimony. The Interest of the country "was already strikingly directed di-rected to the cases, through the recent debates on the subject by the liclch-stag liclch-stag and Diet. From the evidence it apears that the documents smuggled Include In-clude publications of the Russian Pro Fund association of New York, and the Jewish Labor league. How Circulated. The Prussian police claim to have as- for tallied that there existed a system for circulation of documents through agents in the border towns. The pro- j ccedings which hitherto had been rather ' 'nine, reached a sensational stage to- day In the testimony of M. Von 'Wymodze, tho Russian Consul General it Koenlgsberg. who paid tho police brought hl:n over twenty-five seised "ampblet?, asking him to speedily ex-amine ex-amine them. Of this number, the Con-mil Con-mil General read only one, marking ob-Jectlonable ob-Jectlonable sentences. As to Inflammatory Sentences. Hcrr Llcbknecht, one of the counsel fl for the defense, asked M. Von Wymo- dze to point out the Inflammatory sen-tences sen-tences that had been quoted In the pam-phlet pam-phlet by the ministers In the Reichstag and Diet debates, but M. "Wymodze was unable to do so. Herr Llebknecht eon-tlnued: eon-tlnued: "Where Is the sentence 'Noth-Ing 'Noth-Ing can save the throne of Nicholas II. from the fate of Alexander II. from bloody vengeance.' I find nothing In the whole pamphlet to that effect." M, Von Wymodze claimed that the imperfections In the translation were j due to the hurry in which he marie it. Herr Llebknecht declared that the hurry was blasi-d and due to a wish to j Inuert blOQd-curdling phases, which 1 were not In the original. Judge to the Rescue. The presiding judge thereupon came to the defence of M. Von Wymodze, saying the decisive sentences were in the other pamphlet.". To this, Herr Llebknecht rejoined: 1 "This garbled translation gave the Im- pcrlal chancellor and other ministers the occasion to make the gravest 1 charges against the Social-Democracy. j It wan precisely the above penlenco 1 which played the most promlrfent role in the public discussion." The Judge did not permit Herr Lieb-knecht Lieb-knecht to make any further remarks on this line and excused M. Von Wymodze for the errors in translation of the pamphlet on account of the brief time j he devoted to the work. Counsel Schwartz expressed astonlsh- j ment at the brief time permitted to M. Von Wymodze to arrange words which were not connected with the pamphlet. Again Aided by Judge. The Judge again. In a sharp tone, replied re-plied that this was an insinuation that the additions were purposely made. Dr. Bailed, lecturer, at the University of Berlin, testified to the harmless character char-acter of tho Social-Democrat pamphlets, submitted to hhri by the court for examination. ex-amination. He said tho pamphlets sharply condemned errorism and censured cen-sured the Russians for their attempts on tho life of Prince Oblenskl, the former form-er governor of Kherson and later of Kharkoff, , recently appointed gpvernor of Finland. The trial will continue for at least ten days. ' ' . |
