DEATH TO ENEMIES.
BLOOD-LUST OF SOVIET
SIBERIA FOR CRIMINALS
Australian and N'.Z. Presia Association. (Received October IS, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 17
Til p. Moscow correspondent of the Daily News says the Soviet's chief prosecutor, Krilcnko, addressed ;i conference on prison reform. He said : " So long as capitalism exists we must, and shall, continue shooting people who are dangerous to our society and our regime."
Krilenko deplored the ever-increasing number of short terms of imprisonment inflicted on workers. < He explained that he was drafting a bill to standardise punishment for non-political offences and to give the same punishment to all convicted persons followed by lifelong exile.
Criminals who escaped imprisonment would be deported to Siberia, punished by boycott or by being allotted compulsory labour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20081, 19 October 1928, Page 13
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