SOCIALISTS SENTENCED.
CHARGE OF PLOTTING WITH FOREIGNERS. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, March 7. Of the accused Socialists, seven defendants Were sentenced to from five to eight years ’ imprisonment, and the xemainder to ten years. ■ Fourteen Socialists, all of whom were prominent officials of the State Bank, the State Planning Commission and other Soviet organisations were arraigned on charges of plotting with foreign Socialists for the purpose of establishing conditions in Russia such .ns exist in foreign democratic countries. All pleaded guilty.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 March 1931, Page 5
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