SENTENCED TO DEATH.
INSURRECTION IN SIAM. IvTNG’S SON REPRIEVED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 9 a.m.) SINGAPORE, November 24. A special Court at Bangkok sentenced to death 21 persons convicted of insurrection by trying to overthrow the Government. Throe of these 21 were reprieved and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Twenty-two others were given life sentences and seven were acquitted. Those reprieved include the son of King Cliulalongkorn, also the commander of Siam’s expeditionary force in Europe in the Great War. Two sons of this commander are among those sentenced to> death.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 39, 25 November 1939, Page 4
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