ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY
A PRINCESS IN RUSSIA, OFFENCE TO READ THE BIBLE, (United Press Association.) {By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' _ LONDON, December 3. The Morning Post’s Riga correspondent states that, according to information from Leningrad, there is a dangei of the death sentence being passed in the case of Princess Sophie Lieven, a sister-in-law of Sir Kynaston Studd (Lord Mayor of London last year), who was arrested and is now in the Lubianka gaol. . It is stated that she occupied a posi tion at Librar, and is accused of participation in an anti-Soviet conspiracy, and in White Guardist wars, and will be court-martialled. According to reports from Moscow her anti-revolutionary activities consisted of holding Sunday schools for the benefit of working-class children, and reading the Bible, The prosecution is believed to have been instigated by the notorious Anti-God Society, Lady Studd, who is a Russian, said that she knew that her sister loyally abided by the Bolshevist regime and devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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