ISLAND DICTATOR
TRIAL IN MOSCOW. INCIDENTS ON WRANGEL ISLAND STAFF ILL-TREATED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received May 18, 11.10 a.m. MOSCOW, May 17. M. Vyshinski, iv ho conducted the trial of the engineers of Metropolitan Vickers, in 1933, presided over the Supreme Court trial of 1. D. Simcnchuk, the director of the polar station on Wrangel Island, who allegedly created a dictatorship, ill-treating the scientific staff and local population. When the medical officer, Wultson, protested ho received a fictitious emergency call and was murdered oil route by Simenehuk’s assistant. Simeuchuk attempted to starve Mrs W til Ison. He domed the Eskimos’ right to hunt or be fed from tlio station’s warehouse, and several died. Oito Schmidt, the chief of the North Sea route administration, learning of Hie situation despatched an investigator, who put an end to the abuses. Wrangel Island is a Soviet possession in the Arctic Circle, north-west of Behring Strait.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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153ISLAND DICTATOR Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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