London, Mar. 1.
Exchequer returns show that, with under five weeks of the financial year to run, total ordinary revenue amounts to £762,570,464 out of the budget estimate for the whole year of £8631100,000.—Wireless through After a trial lasting nearly a month, Dn. Martin Niemoller, head of the Confessional or Opposition Evangelical Church and former submarine commander, was to-day sentenced to seven months' honourable confinement in a fortress.
In addition, the pastor, who was tried by a special court on charges of "making malicious attacks against the State and the Nazi Party, repeatedly abusing the pulpit' for political purposes, publicly inciting disobedience against State laws," was ordered to pay a fine of 1,500 marks and to pay the costs of the proceedings.
The trial was heard by three judges and was held in camera.
Lr. Niemoller, whose reply to the charges against him. occupied 120 pages of closely typed script, was arrested on July 1 last year, but his trial did not start until February 7 this year.—Reuter.
The sentence of seven months confinement has been expunged by ihe period Dr. Niemoller spent in prison awaiting trial but in the event of the pastor failing to pay the fine he must serve three months, —Reuter.
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