TRIAL OF RUSSIAN COOKS.
FIVE SENTENCED TO
DEATH.
RUBBISH MIXED WITH FOOD.
(Received July 13, 9.40 p.m.)
LONDON, July 13,
The Riga correspondent of "The Times'" says that what the Soviet press describes as intolerably filthy conditions in industrial kitchens, and the serving of food that was not eatable in a workers' restaurant in Moscow resulted in five "cook wreckers" being sentenced to death, and seven being imprisoned for terms from 18 months to eight years, after a demonstrative trial lasting four days. The victims were apparently selected scapegoats with suitable non-proletarian origins, including Mikhail Oshkin, a former Czarist officer and landowner, who was sentenced to death, and his tw;o sons, who w«re imprisoned. Witnesses said that soups _an(| other dishes regularly coitfamea quantities of rubbish, naite, hail, and glass. The court declared it proved that the accused had mixed these in food to discredit the Soviet and undermine State industry.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 11
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