SOVIET RUSSIA
SERIES DF EXECUTIONS FOURTEEN OFFICIALS INCLUDED Press Associ I'bn—By Telegraph—Copyright. MOSCOW, October 27. The so-called “ class war front ” is responsible for thirty-two death sentences which were announced by yesterday’s newspapers, including . those passed on fourteen Soviet officials at Astrakhan for allegedly failing to crush or favouring private enterprise. Penal servitude sentences ranging from one year to ten years was imposed in 108 cases. The O.G.P.U. shot a priest, a psalm reader, and two peasants for opposing “land redistribution,” while another priest and four churchwardens were sentenced to death for protesting against the closing of a church and for assembling crowds by ringing church bells. Nine others were sentenced to imprisonment for ten years, after which they are to be exiled. The minor newspapers record the execution of nine peasants, which the fthief newspapers do not trouble to report.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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