Leipzig, Nov. 23. proceaings to-day at the Retcstag here was a sensation during the trial.
'Van der Lubbe, in. a tong, coher. exit speech, demande that, the trial stiould be speed a lily concluded. He] declared that ad nothing to do with "alone got fire to the Dwant to have a sentence of twenty years' penal servitude or death, but cannot stand thie trial ' any Told by the president that he only had to reveal all his accomplices to ensure a speedy end of the trial, Van der Lubbe reiterated that he alone had been responsible,; Dimitroff, the Bulg: Comitnist leader, intervened. suggesting that the fire was "too complicated' td have been the work of one man.
Van der Lubbe, hearing this, passionately reiterated that he alone was guilty and demanded to pps to death—Reuter.
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