TOKIO COMMUNISTS
SEVERE SENTENCES,
FOUR RECEIVE LIFE TERM,
(Received 9 a.m.) TOKIO, October 29,
Sentences were imposed on Communists in the Tokio District Court today as follows; —Four ringleaders, imprisonment for life; six, ten. to fiften years’ imprisonment; and 87 others from two to nine years’ imprison- * ment.
The Procurator demanded the death penalty for the leaders. Manabu Cano, the most distinguished of the prisoners, announced his intention of appealing. He denounced the police for their exploitation of a recent bank robbery as Communists’ work.
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Northern Advocate, 31 October 1932, Page 5
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