1939-01-11 — Page 28

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1939.

LIFE SENTENCE PASSED ON- NOTED WRITER

Berlin, To-day.

Sentence on the Radical writer Ernst Nickisch and his associates was pronounced by the People's Court yesterday after an eight days' trial.

Nickisch was sentenced to penal servitude for life and permanent loss of civil rights for "preparation of high treason and the illegal organisation of a political party."

Drexel was sentenced to three years and six months' penal ser vitude and the loss of civil rights for three years on the same charges while the third accused Troeger was sentenced to one year and nine months' imprisonment,

It was alleged during the trial that Niekisch attempted to con- tinue his "Widerstandsbewegung"

(movement of resistance) which

dates back as far as 1926, despite the prohibition of political parties after 1933. By speeches and writ- ings he attempted to propagate "Bolshevist" Utopia.

The movement had shrunk to a few "intellectual cranks" in 1937.

"The activities of the accused, however, had to be considered," in the opinion of the court, "as an offence against the law of July 14, 1933, forbidding the organisation

RESTAURANT GAMBLING RAID

A gambling "School" at the Kam Lung Restaurant, Des Voeux Road, was raided yesterday by the police. Eleven men who were playing at the time were released on bail of $8 each, and the two "proprietors" were given bail of $75. When the names were read out in court to- day, no-one came forward. All bail was estreated.

TAIKOO THEFT

Before Mr. R.-A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy this morning, Chan Fuk, 21, was charg- from the Taikoo Sugar Refinery ed with stealing a quantity of lead

yesterday.

Defendant was seen by an em- ployee of Taikoo, and was arrested

on the spot. He was sentenced to two months' hard labour.

Mr. T. S. Stainton appeared as complainant, while Inspector Rus- sell prosecuted.

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