ALLEGED TRAITORS
SENTENCES IN POLAND COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA (Received April 25, 6.30 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, April 24 Thirty-three of the 39 Conjmunists and Jews who were arrested "oh April 4 charged with being agents .of the Third (Communist) International have been found guilty, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 15 to 2 years, aggregating 181 years, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Times. Two women were sentenced to 12 years in gaol. The accused were also charged with organising Communist propaganda in the Polish Army and forming cells of three to fire persons as the nucleus of regimental cells with a view to the creation of a Popular Front. They were further charged with distributing pamphlets, which Red Army officers had prepared, teaching soldiers how'to transform an "Imperialist war" into a civil war, including desertion to Russia in the event of a war between Russia and Poland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 11
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