Show Pr Prosecution Pr se s cution of Off r r f r i Busian ian sian Plotters s. s 4 Md to I 0 ij Hits HI Law L S its Snag t i. Jt t iV 1 I mJ I Two o Witnesses el Entitled f so Claim l m Parliamentary arli en i Immunity g t t r e By EUGENE LYONS V f. MOSCOW Nov 25 25 United Unite The Prees-The Tho prosecution 1 of eight elgh Counter unter revolutionaries who In n t ti st three day days have havo confessed a an Unprecedented organization organisation for in in in- arnal vandalism was threatens threatened today day with legal gal complications complicatIon i I. I tAn An to appeal to Michael MichaeI T L. L Kalinin president of or tho the Russian federal fedora republics may be mado t to tho the authority of or Prosecutor Prosecute NJ Nicholas holas In ten witnesses Including Professor O former vico president o of oft t 11 state planning commission slon an and md i tb toA engineer cr Q and are aro members central executive committee commute an end end-as nd- nd s such arc aro entitled to tary Immunity before tho C rt trial was rapidly approaching approach approach- fa ing Its Ita end th the tho eight Ight defendants Having completed their confession of or sm ert years of ot effort to starve and suffering on 00 countrymen In a plot to undermine un un- dermine th the nations nation's e- e eo economic o Ufo life ah prepare preparo for tora fora a foreign tt pl t war ULES FOR SECRECY r ho court ruled ruled however that their testimony regarding tho the roles foreign powers po mu must t be heard In secret with even tho the press excluded as ns' compared to tho the pub pub- Ira court sessions and tind tho the use o of tho radio movie camera camern and thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot columns of ot newspaper no r rep ep c eo to advertise throughout Rus- Rus B the confessions of or the doomed plotters plotter's Tho ho confessions of ot tho the eight de def defendants de- de all ll f nil of ot them scholarly men o sold MId they longed for c comforts o he old czarist regime were regime were In Interpreted Interpreted Interpreted In- In In communist and some lome diplomatic circle circles as ns a 3 disgusting of ot the spiritual bankruptcy c tho old causes J f JiTo iTo To o think that not ono one of ot these eminent professors dares stand stanc tJ upon tipon on his hind legs and defend his Viewpoint exclaimed ono one diplomat dip was In Moscow under the zar t regime I I remember under t ti czar some somo trials of ot revolution revolution- 1st lists and I remember low how they defied old regime regimo and never on once co betrayed be be- be h cd their comrades What a Contrast I I Others Others' commented on the tho utter I a t with which tho the defendants shoved helleved almost certain of the thet t oath eath sentence sentence placed placed the details at tho sabotage o and Int Interventionist I lot before tho the court and tho the lIsten lIsten- mot i j IS hostile nation Ono tW lI said ld that among tho the pre present ent me members bers of counter revolutionary nary organizations there thero undoubtedly i men of ot courage and spiritual grandeur r but the tho present ent trial has given ven no Indication of such mot mo mo- I t tives ves I RECALL EXECUTION They recalled ed ho however over that Prof Prossor Pro- Pro 1 f or Pal chi ri sky who was wal executed executed exe nearly two years a ago o died defending defending de de- de- de fending its his cause which cause which Involved two ttY of tho the defendants In tho prese present pres pres- e ent int i trial L b l 1 n and Victor Victora a neither of t whom was be betrayed be be- The 1 ho o men have calmly recited t l theire their I while e economic sabotage efforts they lived In comparative comfort upon remittances from abroad and th their scheme for splitting up their th lr holy hoh fatherland fatherlands Into spheres of or of e exploitation among foreign cou coun- coun tries I Jt was considered significant that l B. of l ot the defendants admitted the they were unable to penetrate the tho ranks of ot the red army anny to organize antS anti sg let lct cells In accordance with orders they said came camo from the Fr French general staff The They likewise t testified to great difficulties In ef efforts ef- ef f forts s to disorganize tho the military and anda I ct-I a Aviation Uon Industries Such testimony apparently explained the cheerful mood of ot War Commissar y V j last week when he told the United Press that the arm army and navy were ro entirely loyal The plotters had some somo success inet In et attempts t milts to organize special nuclei o former czarist and of- of of officers f In n the various Industries In preparation for the Intervention The Tho Tha professors failed however In 0 their effort to swing their own students against th they y said RId The students repulsed every effort i 3 In the tia sabotage plan they followed followed followed fol fol- lowed three main lines of ot work possible b because of or their official cial position They Thoy were First Underestimates of oe trIo tiro national national na na- na productive possibilities Second overestimates or inflation of plans beyond sensible proportions and Third constant revision of or plans plana to cause dela delays and confusion |