IN SOVIET PRISON
ENGLISHMAN ILL-TREAI ED ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE. ’ Sydney “Sun” Cable. LONDON, April 29. Because he acted as correspondent for tlie “Daily News,” a young Leicester engineer named Edward Rrmington has been expelled from Russia, destitute, after ten weeks’ ill-treatment in a Soviet prison. Although the editor appointed him with the sanction of the Soviet Foreign Office, Rimington was arrested on a charge of espionage after telegraphing the story of Kameneff’s fall. Ho was tasated with every conceivable indignity, told that he was sentenced to death, and thrown into a filthy prison with 15 others who were unaware of the charges against them. The Soviet explains that Rimington falsely represented himself as a Communist.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 6
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