BLOOD LUST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1937, Page 7

BLOOD LUST.

YOUNG AND OLD.

School Children Demand the

Death Penalty. "HOUNDS OF GERMANY." United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.* LONDON. January 26. The latent "old Bolshevik"' to be roped in by the Ogpu is Boloborodoff. who. while president of the Ekaterinburg Soviet, ordered the execution of the Czar and his family in 101 S. His arrest is a sequel to the detention of Prince Budum Mdivani of Georgia. Beloborodoff is charged with membership of a T-otskyist etlitre in Siberia. Evidence at the trial to-day concerning alleged German sabotage activities is regarded as having an important bearing on the cases of o"> Germans now awaiting trial in Moscow. Leningrad ami Siberia. Some are charged with sabotage and some with espionage.

"The Time-" Kiga correspondent saythat in response to a campaign by agitators hundreds of thousands of resolutions have lieen passed in factories am! villages demanding the death penalty of the 17 prisoners and all who have leanings towards Trotskyism.

The authorities' impassioned campaign extends even to the schools where the crimes of the prisoners are enumerated in picturesque language, and the progress of tlie trial is reported. Consequently children passed hundreds of resolutions couched in the same bloodthirsty language as their elders, urging the judge to "shoot these bandits, to destroy the-c hounds of Germany and to put an end to Trotsky and all Trotskvists."