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Show TRY COMMUNIST LEADERS FOR KILLINGS IN REVOLT BUDAPEST. July 7. The long awaited trial of Communist conimissa- 1 es opened here Monday with Dr. Peter Agoston, foreign minister dur-ing dur-ing the Bela Kun administration and I nine others facing charges of murder. i he defense asked for a delay ponding pond-ing the arrival of tho allied diplomats who were In Budapest during the Communist regime. Tho prosecutor in , reply said the Brlntlsh government was unwilling to have its i-epresenta-I lives here and the United States had sent no word. Stephen Szanto. counsel of one of tho commissaries, died of apoplexy I following a dispute with the prose-Icutor prose-Icutor shortly after the negotiations 'opened. Tho proceedings vvero devot-I devot-I ed to establishing how communism started in Hungary and the part tak- 1 len in it by the soviet government at Moscow. Judge Stockcr of the supreme court Who Sentenced two "Lenine boys" last autumn, la presiding at the trial which Is b-dng held in the court room whore the Communists conducted revolutionary revolution-ary trials. |