SOVIET JUSTICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1928, Page 5

SOVIET JUSTICE

THIRD DEGREE METHODS (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn— Copyright.) LONDON, June 25. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent reports that the first stage of the Donetz coal region trial has concluded. It consisted of the evidence and the cross-examination of the accused. The remainder of the trial was held in camera. The proceedings thus far have produced no convincing evidence of any plot, but merely of mismanagement. Nevertheless, the opinion in Moscow is that after such a stir somebody must die. A German mechanic, Maier, Hkf many of the Russians, denied a statement that was signed by him before the trial, alleging that the questioners had reduced him to exhaustion by subjecting him sometimes to uninterrupted interrogation for six or seven hours, after which he did not know what he signed. SHEEP IMPORTATION MOSCOW, June 24. The first shipment of sheep from South America has reached Odessa in a satisfactory condition. The Soviet, officials state that if this experiment succeeds, they intend to import one hundred thousand sheep from Uruguay every year.