DEATH SENTENCE.
SABOTAGE IN SILK INDUSTRY. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, May 30. The Moscow correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian” says a report from Erivan, the capital of Armenia describes how wreckers, .at the instigation of local nationalists and Japanese and Italian intelligence officers, tried to blight the silkworm industry by destroying 600,000 mulberry trees and shipping raw silk, infected with parasites, throughout the country. This caused damage amounting to millions of roubles, and broke up the State silkworm farms. Kamoyev, the head of the silk trust, was sentenced to death. His assistant Helena Markalyan, and a farm manager, Sarkisyan, were each sentenced to l 0 years’ imprisonment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 5
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