LATE SPORTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 6

LATE SPORTING

C.J.C. RACES (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Christchurch Jockey Club's races were icontinued to-day in line weather and with a large, attendance. The track is good. l’eerswick Handicap.— 5-5 Elude, 1; 4-4 Tea Garden, 2; 3-3 Strong Light, 3. iScr. Wealth. Won by a length. Time, 1.55 4-5. Nursery Handicap. 9-7 The .Masquerader, 1; 4-4 Gaysome,. 2; 1-1 Trivet, 3. Scr. Red Manfred. Won by a length. Time, 1.13. Yaldhurst Handicap.—l-1 Argentic, 1; 6-6 Mount Boa, 2; 3-3 Metal Bird, 3. Ser. Monastic. Won by two lengths. Time, 1.41 1-5. cowardice—treachery. You are useless both to Russia and England. Perhaps you will he useful as fertiliser for our socialist fields somewhere.” M. Vyshinsky ended by declaring that all the accused except Gregory , were guilty under article 58, carrying penalties up to Shooting, hut their failure must be mitigatorily considered. It, is surmised locally that Gregory will he acquitted, .MacDonald and Thornton sentenced to two years, and Monkhouso to three years’ imprisonment, and Uusliny and Nordwall hound over, .also that Gusev and Lobanov 1 will bo sentenced to death, with other Russian accused 1o varying terms of imprisonment. The sentences of the ! Britons might be commuted to exile, since the Soviet is obviously anxious to hear the last of the international aspects of the affair. M. Zazachiev, opening the defence on behalf of Gusev, Sokolov, and Oleinik, threw the blame on the Britons in order to exculpate his own ' clients. Ho said it, was funny that Mbnkhousc and Thornton should be regarded tvs heroes abroad, when they had committed crimes for which they would not be worshipped at home.

M. Smirnoff, MacDonald’s counsel, speaking calmly, impressed even tho judges and obviously roused his client’s drooping spirits. He rebutted M. Zftzachicv’s assertion that the Britons were responsible for the. Russians’ guilt. lie said: “MacDonald is .an underling who cannot be classed with Monkhouso and Thornton. He, admitted a serious crime, but pledged himself never to repeat it.” MacDonald passed a note to Ulrich, apparently a pica for a reply, but it was not answered. "The court adjourned at this stage. THE QGPU’S METHODS PROFESSOR’S EXPERIENCE SPIES IN ENGLAND (Received April 18, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. The Daily Mail says Ogpu spies should bo expelled" from England to prevent tho execution of M. Vyshinsky’s threat to investigate Thornton’s activities in Loudon, or else they might result in a repetition of crimes like the murder of Kutepov at Paris. In a letter to the Times, the scientist, Professor Tchernavin, formerly bead of the laboratories of the Northern Fisheries Trust, discloses the Ogpu’s method of extracting confessions. Professor ’Tchernavin was accused of sabotage in 1931. He was placed with a hundred others in a. cell 75it. square infested with hugs and lice, and threatened that if lie did not sign a confession he would lie shot and his wife would be arrested. Professor Tchernavin refused, and was sent without trial to five years’ penal servitude in the Solovetsky concentration camp, from which ho escaped in 19^2.

The measures the Ogpu applied to Professor Tcheruavin’s fellow prisoners included forcing them to stand without food and drink for six days and nights, placing them undressed before windows open to tho winter cold, crowding 300 men and women in a single room kepi at n high temperature for six days, and then forcing them to run in batches of dO from the room until they signed eon fossions or dropped sensoloss.