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Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 10

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FACTORY HAND GAOLED. MOSCOW. December 13. A Stakhanovite factory hand, K. Golubev, has been sentenced to seven /ears’ imprisonment and five years’j disfranchisement for pre-election tounter-revolutionary propaganda, in making a noise and swearing at a landidate. TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS. FORMAL INDICTMENTS. (Received December 14, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. "The Times” Riga correspondent says: Under a legal reform, “wreckers” and “terrorists” henceforth must receive a formal indictment twentyfour hours before their trial. The new decree still prohibits any appeal against a sentice. It permits the condemned to appeal for mercy.) The execution must be carried out im-

mediately after the appeal for mercy Is dismissed.