Trial of Prisoners on Charge of Counter Revolution Moscow, May 19.
The trial is proceeding here of the engineers and technical experts of the Donetz coal-basin on a charge of "economic counter-revolution" before a court presided over by the Rector of Moscow University.
The Tass (Official) News Agency states that 16 of the 53. accused. pleaded guilty and 13 partly guilty, including a German named. ex, who is alleged to have confessed that he assisted in delivering} unfit machines. Twenty four others, including two Germans, Otto and Meyer, pleaded not guilty.
Badsteiber, Otto and Meyer are! the only Germans involved in the trial, the others being Russians. Reuter.
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