Kovno, May 24, The clerical paper "Rytas" announces that the state prosecutor: has started proceedings for high treason against ex-Dictator Woldemaras owing to "demagogic utterances in the press calculated to undermine the authority of the Lithuanian Republic." The chief grievance against Woldemaras is his Statement to the effect that the National Constitution owing to a formal technical defect is illegal.
Woldemaras also accused one of the highest Lithuanian Administrators of the Memel Territory of corruption.
The Government Party, of which Woldemaras is a member, has sum~ moned him before. the Control Commission for a hearing following which the Commission will decide whether the ex-dictator should be expelled from the Party—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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