(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The libel suit of Max Warburg and Herr Melchior, Hamburg bankers, against Theodore Fritsch, anti-Semitic leader and editor of "Der Hammer" will be reconsidered, according to a decision handed down in the Hamburg Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, on an appeal of the counsel for Messrs. Warburg and Melchior ordered a revision of the sentence, agreeing that the fine of 1,000 Marks imposed by the court on Theodor Fritsch was too small.
Theodore Fritsch was sentenced in December, 1924, to three months imprisonment in libel action, after a sensational trial in which Max Warburg and the banker Melchior, Germany’s financial experts at the Peace Conference, were the complainants. On appeal the sentence was reduced to a fine of 1,000 marks.
Fritsch had published a number of articles in the anti-Semitic paper "Hammer," and issued leaflets, in which he claimed that Warburg and Melchior, while representing Germany at Versailles, betrayed their country in favor of America and the Allied governments.
Theodore Fritsch, in his explanations, could not offer any evidence to support the charges he had made in his articles and leaflets. He merely expressed his "conviction" that Warburg is annually training five hundred Russian Jews as bank officials and future diplomats.
Max Warburg submitted data on the part he played during the Versailles Peace Conference.
Mr. Warburg stated that he had not been in communication with his brother in America during the time of the War, nor did he see President Wilson when the latter was in France.
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