IN DANGER OF EXECUTION.
SHSTER-IN-LAW OF SIB KYNASTON STUDD. SOVIET CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY £By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) - t LONDON, Nov t 5. The (Morning Post's Riga correspond<ent states that, according .to information from Leningrad? there is danger of a death sentence in the case of Princess Sophie Lieven, sister-in-law of Sir Kynaston Studd, ex-Lord Mayor of London. She was arrested and is now in Lubianka. gaol. It is stated that she occupied a position at a library and is accused of participation, in an antiSoviet conspiracy, also that she was concerned in the White Guardist wars, -and will be court-martialled.
According to reports from Moscow, %he Princess's anti-revolutionary activities consisted of holding Sunday Schools for the benefit of working-class children, and reading the Bible. The prosecution is believed to have been instigated by the notorious Antifeod Society. Lady Studd, who is a Russian, said that her sister had loyally abided by the Bolshevik regime and devoted her•gelf to helping the poor.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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