(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Haas case, termed the present-day Dreyfus affair in Germany, which has attracted wide attention, was the subject of deliberation at yesterday’s meeting of the Prussian Government.
It was stated that the Cabinet decided to impose a disciplinary punishment upon the investigating Judge Koelling, who was responsible for bringing the murder charge against the innocent German-Jewish merchant Rudolf Haas of Magdeburg.
Further proof of the innocence of Haas was submitted to the Cabinet.
The Haas affair has divided German public opinion in a similar way to the division in France during the Dreyfus affair. Newspapers report that anti-Semitic circles influenced the investigating Judge Koelling to adhere to the version of the Jew Haas’s guilt, despite the fact that the evidence in his favor was at hand, for the purpose of compromising the Prussian Minister of the Interior Severing, termed by the anti-Semites as “protector of the Jews.”
The Haas case developed into a battle-front, on one side of which stand the anti-Semitic and reactionary elements, and on the other, the Republican and liberal elements of the Republic.
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