ESTHONIAN TRIAL.
HEAVY SENTENCES PASSED. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Times’s Riga correspondent sayi that the trial of 249 Estlioniau Com munists at Kevai ended in the Court finding all guilty. of conspiring to overthrow the constitution by violence, according to a programme prepared by the third Communist International. The evidence showed tliai tho Soviet legation in Revai had acteo as intermediary for the transmission of instruction and money from Moscow. The Court condemned 39, including live members of Parliament and five women, to life-long penal servitude. Seven were released, but the remainder were sentenced to varying terms ol imprisonment. The trial lasted It days.—Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1179, 29 November 1924, Page 5
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