DEATH SENTENCE
GERMAN'S FATE MOSCOW TRIAL ENDS EIGHT OTHERS TO DIE CHARGES OF SABOTAGE By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright MOSCOW, Nov. 22 The German mining engineer Stickling and the eight other men accused of various acts of sabotage in Russia were sentenced to-day to he shot. Stickling is said to have confessed that he had kept the German Consul at Novo Sibirsk informed of the sabotage and had received instructions from him
The accused added that the German secret police had ordered him to collaborate with the followers of Trotsky in connection with sabotage. All the accused appealed for clemency, but it is expected that this will be rejected in the case of Stickling, who is the first foreigner to be sentenced to death by a Soviet Court. REACTION IN GERMANY INTENSE INDIGNATION REPRIEVE DEMANDED BERLIN, Nov. 22 The German Ambassador in Moscow has been ordered to make fresh representations regarding Stickling. A memorandum states that the German Government regards the verdict as incredible and is demanding that Stickling be reprieved immediately. The sentence of death has caused intense indignation throughout Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22584, 24 November 1936, Page 9
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