21 Sentenced To Death At Bangkok
(Received 11.30 a.m.) SINGAPORE, November 24,
A special court, at Bangkok passed the death sentence on 21 persons convicted of insurrection by trying to overthrow the Government.
Three have been reprieved and given life sentences.
Twenty-two others were sentenced to imprisonment for life. Seven were acquitted.
Those reprieved included a son of King Chulalongkorn, also the Commander of Siam's Expeditionary Force to Europe fn the Great War.
Two sons of this commander are among those sentenced to death.
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Northern Advocate, 25 November 1939, Page 7
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