SOVIET REGIME
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY WOMAN IN DANGER OF EXECUTION LADY STUDD’S SISTER (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, December 3. The Riga correspondent of the Morning Post states that according to information from Leningrad there is a danger of a death sentence being imposed in the case of Princess Sophie Lieven, a sister-in-law of Sir Kynaston Studd, ex-Lord Mayor of London, who was arrested, and is now located at the Lubianka gaol. It is stated that she occupied a position at the library, and is accused of participation in an anti-Soviet conspiracy, also in the White Guarist wars, and will be court-martialled. According to reports from Moscow, her anti-revolutionary activities consisted in holding Sunday School for the benefit of working class children, and in reading the Bible. The prosecution is believed to have been instigated by the notorious anti-God Society. Lady Studd, who is a Russian, said she knew her sister loyally abided by the Bolshevik regime, and devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Southland Times, Issue 20949, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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