The Public Prosecutor has lodged an appeal against the sentences passed by the court on Count Helldorf and his associates in the anti-Jewish excesses here on Rosh Hashanah, on the ground that they are totally inadequate. He has also appealed against the heavier sentences passed at the end of September on the participants in the excesses, claiming that these, too, are not sufficiently severe, so that it is possible that the whole affair may be reopened.
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