CONSPIRACY TRIAL
RUTHENIAN COMMUNISTS. DEMONSTRATION BY SPECTATORS. Vilna, May 23. Nineteen out of the 56 Ruthenian Communists who were charged with conspiring to establish a proletariat dictatorship in the Polish White Russian provinces, were acquitted. Four of the ringleaders, all ex-mem-bers of the Seym, were sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. The sentences on the others ranged from three to eight years. The spectators in the gallery cheered and showered flowers upon those acquitted, who replied by singing the Communist anthem, “We Slept for- Centuries, but are now Awakened.” The police had the hardest job to quell the demonstration. The trial lasted three months. It was early alleged that the Soviet Legation at Warsaw was the medium for supplying the funds for the plot. Soon afterwards the Soviet counsellor was recalled.—Australian Press Association-United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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