Berlin, Feb. 9.
The public prosecutor has given notice of appeal against: the judgment passed by a Berlin court in the sensational forged chervonetz case. Three out of seven defendants were acquitted for want of evidence while the remaining four were found guilty of. printing and uttering: spurious Soviet chervonetz bills. They were, however, discharged because the court allowed their plea that they had acted from patriotic motives. By the acceptance of this plea as valid, the action falls, thin the scope of the amnesty for political offenders.
The comments by the press on the outcome of the fours weeks trial varies according to the political Jered of the papers. The Consery-Jative organs hail the outcome with undisguised relief whilst, on the other hand, the Socialist paper 'Vorwaerts" describes the judgment being incomprehensible. 'The veral papers are content to point out that, no matter what feeling' the judgment may arouse in the vidual, Germany's law-courts are Independent and not subject to any influence from outside and that, accordingly, there is no reason to doubt that the Berlin court of jus tice that passed the judgment did not arrive at its decision solely on the ground of the evidence produced in the ease.
Similar arguments, it is believed, will be advanced by the German Government in the event of Rus-jan official protest which is antiipated in political quarters. These quarters point out that, irrespect= ive of the merits or demerits of the present case, the Reich, unlike the Soviet Government, has no power to interfere with the findings of a law-court, and that, moreover, the organs of the State, the police and public prosecutor, have left nothing undone to bring' the forgers to book—Trans Ocean Kuo Min,
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