DEATH SENTENCE
TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS,
SECRET ORGANISATIONS,
ATTEMPT AT RESCUE,
BY CABLE PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Nov. 8, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 7. According to advices from Reval, the trial of 159 Communists on a charge of plotting a coup d’etat begins on November 11. Two men were discovered piercing a hole in the wall of the prison. They were arrested after an exchange of shots, and confessed that they had been hired by a secret Communist organisation to rescue the prisoners. Both were court-martialled and sentenced to death.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 5
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88DEATH SENTENCE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 5
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