RED PLOTTERS
THIRTY-SEVEN CONVICTED
VARYING TERMS IN PRISON,
(Australian Prers Association.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) VILNA, May 23. Nineteen out of 56 of the Rutlienian Communists charged with conspiring ito establish, a proletariat dictatorship in the Polish White Russian provinces were acquitted. The four were sentenced to 12 yeans’ gaol each, the other sentences ranging from three to efght 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, but Now 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 r was the medium for supplying funds for the plot. Soon afterwards the Soviet Counsellor was recalled.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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