Cologne, August 12. The interesting relations between our news- 
paper and the Public Prosecutor’s office continue to take their 
course. Yesterday one of our editors, Ernst Dronke, was again sum- 
moned to appear before the examining magistrate as a witness. 
There was no interrogation on oath since information had been 
received that, on the evening after Anneke’s arrest, Dronke had 
visited Anneke’s wife and obtained there particulars about the arrest. 
When the witness asked against whom the indictment was being 
made, an explanation of the term “Marx and consorts” was given to 
the effect that it was merely possible that the responsible publisher 
Korff would be indicted whereas they intended to indict the 
editor-in-chief, Karl Marx, as the supposed author of the incrimi- 
nated article. 

Incidentally, Dronke stated that he did not consider himself 
bound to tell the truth, since as editor it was possible he might 
be implicated in the authorship of the article and he would not | 
testify against himself.