PRINCESS ACCUSED
OF ANTI-SOVIET CONSPIRACY. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 3. The “Morning Rost’s” Riga correspondent states: “According to information from Leningrad there is a danger of a death sentence in the case of Princess Sophie Lie*in, sister-in-law of Sir Kyiniion Stuck!, ex-Lord Mayor of London, who was arrested and is now at Lubiankia Gaol. It is stated she occupied a position at Librar. She is a:cased of participation .n an Anti-Soviet conspiracy; also in the White Guarelist Wins, and will be court-martialled. According to reports from Moscow her anti-Rovolutionary activities consisted of holding Sunday Schools for the benefit of working-class children reading the Bible. The nr sedition is believed to have been instigated by tne notorious anti-God Society. I.ady Shield, who is a Russian, said s..e knew her sister loyally ’abided bv the Bolshevik regime and devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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