31 DECEMBER 1921, Page 3

The German Supreme Court at Leipzig last week brought to

in end the lengthy trial of some of the Monarchist conspirators who provoked the abortive counter-revolution of March, 1920. The nominal ringleader, Dr. Kapp, was not in custody. Herr von Jagow, who was Foreign Secretary at the outset of the War and pretended that he knew nothing of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, was sentenced for his share in the plot to five years' detention in a fortress—a derisory punishment. Two of his accomplices, Baron von Wangenheim and Dr. Schiele, were acquitted on the ground that they should benefit by the amnesty accorded to the rank and file. The leniency of the Court infuriated the Socialists.