PURGE IN RUSSIA
MORE DEATH SENTENCES ALLEGATIONS OF WRECKING MOSCOW, Dec. 26 Jn connection with the diplomatic purge. M. V. A. Mikanoff has been appointed Minister at Oslo in succession to M. I. S. Yakubovitch, whose destination is not revealed. He was recently reported by his secretary to l>e staying outside the legation instead of answering a summons to return to Moscow in order to furnish details of Trotsky's sojourn in Norway. Newspapers announce 10 death sentences of so-called Tiotskvite wreckers convicted of sabotaging live stock in the Tartar Republic. Four Leningrad trading officials were sentenced to death for wasteful practices, including delivering 1,800,000 rougles' worth of unwanted buttons and storing tailors' dummies in a damp cellar. The president and seven other officials of the Dvina Timber Trust, Archangel, which is a large exporter to Britain, received the death sentence as wrecker,* and agents of a certain foreign Power.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 9
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