PRINCESS IN DANGER
ALLEGED ANTI-SOVIETISM CONDUCTED SUNDAY SCHOOLS (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Doc. 4, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 3. The Morning Post’s Riga, correspondent states that according to information from ■ Leningrad there is a danger of ,thc death sentence being passed in the case of Princess Sophie Lieven, a sister-in-law of Sir Kyhaston St-udd, exI.ord Mayor' of London, who was arrested, and is now in Lubi-anka gaol.
It is stated that site occupied a position at' the library, and is accused of participation in anti-Soviet conspiracy, and also in the White Guardist wars, and will be court-martialled.
According to reports from Moscow her anti-revolutionary activities consisted ol holding Sunday schools for the benefit of working class children, and reading liio Bible. The prosecution is believed to have been instigated by the notorious Anti-God Society. Lady Studd,' who is a Russian, said she knew that her sister had loyally abided by the Bolshevik regime and devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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