HUNGARIAN REDS.
TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.
MOSCOW'S HAND AGAIN.
A. and N.Z.-Sun. BUDAPEST. Nov 10. Several Communists have been sentenced for treason. Zoltan Szanto, one of the People's Commissars, was sentenced to years' imprisonment and 10 years loss of political rights; Etienne Vagt,. leader of the Labour left, wing, to 4£ years' imprisonment and a similar loss of rights; Costola Kriesel to 4 years; Aphce Pohi to 34 years; and 30 others to from 8 months to years. Ten men were acquitted. ..* * "■ - The prisoners cheered Bolshevism and kept interrupting the Judge. An inspector stated in evidence that 11 plots had been unmasked since the Russian Communist, Belakun, had fallen. He was not aware that any prisoners had been tortured. Vagt and hi 3 supporters had acted as a screen for the Communist organisation directed by Belakun from Moscow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 11
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