CONVICTED OF SPYING
TREASON AGAINST THE SOVIET. SHARP REJOINDER TO M. POINCARE. ' Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PETROGRAD, April 13. M. Tichitchcrm (Minister of Foreign ! Affairs) in a Note to M. Poincare, replying to the latter’s telegram y>f April 9, indignantly rejects France’s attempt to interfere with the Kieff trial on behalf of spies, and he recapitulates the many attempts' which France has made to interfere in Russian affairs and the losses that Russia has suffered as a result of this cause. The Soviet Government, since its earliest days, has never allowed anyone to interfere, and certainly it is not going to begin now. The Note says: “Naturally FVance knows about the activities of the spying organisation.” M. Tchitcherin concludes with a friendly proposal that France should give up her present attitude and take a view which would lead to mutual relations.— Reuter. A number of prominent intellectuals were put on trial at Kieff, and four were sentenced to death, while others were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. M. Poincare, voicing French public sentiment, appealed to the Soviet to exercise clemency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 7
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