EXTREME PENALTY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1924, Page 7

EXTREME PENALTY

TO DISCOURAGE THE OTHERS

SOVIET WAY OF "TRUST-

BUSTING."

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPXRIOHT.)

■ (RENTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received 9th..May, 10 a.m.)

MOSCOW, Bth May. The trial of sixteen industrialists charged with economic espionage, corruption, and unfair practices has concluded. Two were sentenced to death and a number of the others to long terms of imprisonment. All the accused were connected with a textile trust. The prosecutor described the proceedings as an effort to prevent private capital from conquering the wholesale trade;