20 YEARS’ JAIL FOR WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 11

20 YEARS’ JAIL FOR WOMAN

Complicity In Kidnapping Russian General

(Independent Cable Service.) PARIS, December 15.

Nedejda Plevitskaia, a famous Hussion singer of Tsarist days who is the wife of General Skobeline, has begn sentenced to 20 years’ Imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years’ banishment from France, for complicity in the kidnapping of General de Miller, leader of the White Russian organization in France, who vanished on September 22. 1937, after leaving a note on his desk, “I am going to see Skobeline. It may be an ambush.”

General de Miller recruited White Russian officers for General Franco-

General Eugene de Miller, 70 years of age and chief of the Russian Federation of War Veterans in Faris, disappeared in September last year. Later General Skobeline, his friend, also disappeared. General de Miller was reported to have left to keep an appointment witli n German attache at. a foreign Embassy, and to have left a note stating that the rendezvous bad -been arranged by Skobeline and possibly was a trap. A sinister side of the affair was that, the name of the oflicer, given in the note as Strohman, translates as straw man or dummy. A few days later Madame Skobeline was arrested and, after several examinations, her indictment, as being concerned in the disappearance of the general, was recommended,