RAILWAY OFFICIALS DOOMED
DEATH SENTENCE FOR NEGLECT OP DUTIES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 24. The Riga correspondent of "The Times” states that Soviet tribunals sentenced 19 men to death for neglecting their railway duties and for sabotage of the railways. A special military tribunal tried 93 prisoners, including high railway officials, who were charged with an espionage plot to wreck the railway traffic between European Russia and the Far East. It was alleged that a Korean named Kimasayen, from Manchuria, bribed the officials to obtain military secrets especially bearing on the Soviet mobilisation plans and the capacity of the trans-Siberian railway. The prisoners were also charged with recently wrecking a number of trains, entailing the loss of numerous lives.
Seven were sentenced to death, including Kimasayen. Tire case attracted unusual attention in view of the strained RussoJapanese relations.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 9
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141RAILWAY OFFICIALS DOOMED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 9
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