PLUNDERERS TO DIE.
RUSSIAN TRIAL ENDS. OTHERS SENT TO GAOL. LONDON, February 22. Two men are to die and four associates are to serve long terms of imprisonment for “37 large-scalo instances of plundering,” which robbed the Soviet of several millions of roubles, writes the Warsaw correspondent of “The Times.” The trial has been held at Kharkov, and the death sentences were. meted out to the ringleaders. The crime is described as a by-product of disorder on the railways and slackened discipline.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 121, 4 March 1939, Page 2
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