SOVIET PURGE
THREE OFFICIALS SENTENCED TO DEATH ALLEGATIONS OF SABOTAGE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, August 4. (Received August 5, at 2 p.m.) Three executives of the Soviet food industry were sentenced to death at Novorossisyk for sabotage. It was alleged that they distributed infected liver sausages, whereby 122 workers were poisoned. Four sellers of the sausages were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 22719, 5 August 1937, Page 14
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63SOVIET PURGE Evening Star, Issue 22719, 5 August 1937, Page 14
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