Cheka Trial

The German Cheka Trial, which has occupied the Supreme Court at Leipzig for several months (TIME, Feb. 23), was ended. Three Bolsheviki were condemned to death, 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying between 6 months and 15 years for murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic. When the three men heard their death sentences, they cheered for Moscow.

In the course of the trial, it was established that the Russian Embassy in Berlin has been used as headquarters for Red revolutionaries, that vast quantities of typhus germs had been bought for the purpose of starting an epidemic, that many highly placed Germans had been marked down for assassination, that complete plans for a terrorist movement had been matured.

Newspapers of all political creeds, except of course the Communist, ap proved the finding of the Court, warned the country of the ever-pres ent Red peril, urged severe measures for the public safety.