EMERGENCY LAW
OGPU-ADMINISTRATION
ANXIETY FOR ENGINEERS
(Times Cable.) (Received March 16, 1.40 p.m.)
LONDON, March 15. "The Times" . Eiga correspondent says that Government has proclaimed an emergency law in all Soviet Republics curtailing the functions of the Law Courts and endowing the Ogpu with powers of summary justice, including the death penalty, alleging that widespread disloyalty and sabotage necessitate this. There is no appeal from this martial law to which the arrested engineers are subject. The Soviet's authorisation that the Ogpu should unrestrictedly conduct trials and impose death sentences has increased the anxiety in British official quarters. The Ambassador, Sir Esmond Ovey, could ask the prisoners only whether their health and the food were satisfactory and exercise sufficient.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 11
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118EMERGENCY LAW Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 11
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