COMMUNISM CHECKED
TRIALS IN LITHUANIA. VAR YEN G S ENTEN CES. FLOWERS SHOWERED ON THE ACQUITTED. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received May 24, 10.15 a.m. VILNA, May 23. Nineteen out of 56 Lithuanian Communists charged with conspiring to establish a proletariat Dictatorship in the Polish White Russian provinces have been acquitted. Four of the ringleaders were sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment, and the others to terms ranging from three to eight years. The spectators in the gallery cheered and showered flowers upon those acquitted, who replied by singing the Communist anthem: “We have slept for centuries; now we are awakened.” The police had the hardest job to quell the demonstration. The trial lasted three months. It was early alleged that the Soviet legation at "Warsaw was the medium for supplying the funds for the plot. Soon afterwards the Soviet councillor was recalled.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 7
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147COMMUNISM CHECKED Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 7
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