RUSSIAN WOMAN’S TERROR
VARIATION (MADE IN ORDER. A Russian woman refugee, who, after experience': of. Russian courts which had so frightened her that she did not appear on .the last occasion, attended the West London County Court on June 12. She was Mme. Assia de Goguel, a manager and dress designer. She asked that an order made against her recently in her absence should not be varied. Mme. de Goguel wept when she told the judge that her mother, sister, cousin and three aunts were in a prison camp in Russia, and that she sent them food parcels. “If I did not do so,” she added, “they would not be fed at all.” The judge reduced the amount of the order.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1933, Page 9
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