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ABDUCTION OF OFFICER CLOSE OF PARIS TRIAL (Received December 15, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 14 The trial was concluded to-day of Madame Skobeline (wife of the Russian General Skobeline), whose stage name was "La Plevitzkaia." On a charge of aiding in the abduction of General de Miller, head of the White Russian exService Association in Paris, she was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and 10 years' banishment. General de Miller mysteriously disappeared on September 22, 1937. General Skobeline, who vanished in mysterious circumstances on the night after the disappearance of General de Miller, and has not since been traced, was alleged to have trapped General de Miller. Documents seized at the house of General Skobeline last year led to charges that ho had compiled dossiers of nil tho Russian organisations in France, whether Tsarist, Republican, or Soviet, and maintained relations with them through several hundred persons whoso names were known to the police. Reports drawn up by tho general in code were decoded, and it is alleged that they showed Skobeline to have been an intelligence agent, amply remunerated, at the head of a well-equip-ped organisation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23222, 16 December 1938, Page 11
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189GAOL FOR WOMAN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23222, 16 December 1938, Page 11
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