PLEA FOR MERCY
SOVIET DEATH SENTENCES
M. POINCARE INTERVENES
TO SAVE PROFESSORS' LIVES.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.--COPIRIGHT.) . (ATJSTRAUAN-NBW ZEALAND1 CABLE ASSOCIATION.) . (Received '10th-April, 11 a.m.) ,- . ,v MOSCOW, 9th April. ■ The trial.has concluded at Kieff of a . number of prominent local intelligentsia, mostly Social Democrats; and including several professors and two women, on charges of treason.. Four of the .accused ': —Tychebakov, Yakoviev, Inovsky, • v and Madame Vinogradova, were sentenced, to j death; six to ten years' imprisonment; i one woman to seven yeaTs' imprisonment, and others to five years' imprisonment. Advices irbm Paris state that anticipating the death sentences, M. Poincare telegraphed to M. Tchitcherin, declaring that French public opinion is gravely perturbed, and 'the execution of the professors will cause great sorrow, and will- be regarded as a diminution of the world's intellectual- patrimony.. The French Gpvernrnent has asked the British and Italian' Governments to'sup- > port the appeal.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 5
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147PLEA FOR MERCY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 5
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