SOVIET’S IRON HAND
DISH 0 NEST OFF'I CTALS SENTENCED TO DEATH.
(Received January 4. 8.25 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 4.
Official reports issued at Moscow states that Poliakoff, commercial director of tin' grain department of the. State Bank, and his assistant. Telsnin, woi*o sentenced to'dentil iur sol 1in£ private rnerehnnt.s moic favorable terms than the State doparments. Neither will heneiic b\ the October amnesty in view ol the (act that their crimes proved that thov involved excessively prolonged abuse of their olfrial positions ter selfish purpose. A middleman receiver was al-o sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to ten years' imprisonment. —A. and X.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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