THE DEATH PENALTY
THE ELECTION CRY OF THE EXTREMISTS
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LONDON, sth September. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Petrograd states : "The Council of Workmens and Soldiers' Delegates has discussed the Moscow Conference decision in favour of restoring the death penalty. M. Tseretellk bravely endeavoxired totaersuade the meeting in favour of supporting the decision, but the intei'nationalists and social revolutionaries won. M. Tseretelli's defeat is symptomatic. It shows' that the international element in the Workmens and Soldiers' Council still outweighs the patriotic element. The municipal elections are proceeding in Petrograd, and the extremists are using the.death penalty as their principal election cry."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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