RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN. (By Cable—Press. Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. December 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. The “Morning Post’s” Riga correspondent states that according to information from Leningrad, there is a danger of a death sentence in the case of Princess Sophie Lievin, sister-in-law of Sir Kynason Studd, ex-Lord Mayor of London, who was arrested and is now in Lubiankia gaol. It is stated that she occupied a position at Librar and is accused of participation in anti-Soviet conspiracy, also in the White 'Guardist wars, arid will be court-martialled. According to reports from Moscow, her anti-revolutionary activities consisted of. holding Sunday schools for the benefit of the working class children and reading the Bible. The prosecution is believed to have been instigated by the notorious anti-Gpd society. ... Lady Studd, who is a. Russian, said she knew that her sister loyally abided by the Bolshevik regime, and devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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