SENT TO FIRING SQUAD
PRICE OF SABOTAGE IN RUSSIA GERMAN ENGINEER SAVED BY PROTESTS United Press Association—By Kl“ctrie Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 26, 1.55 p.m.) MOSCOW, November 25. Tire death sentence on Stickling, the German engineer, who was found guilty of sabotage in the Soviet mines, has been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, but eight of the ten Russians charged with him are to be executed. Four more Germans have been arrested in Russia—Boesherz, Schindler, and Stammer, engineers, and Schaeffer, the director of an industrial concern—on charges of espionage and counter-revolution in the interests of Germany. Novkov, Shubin. Kurov, Liashenko, Andreiov, and Peshekhonov, were sentenced to death, while the death sentences on Kovalenko and Leonenko were commuted to ten years’ imprisonment, as an act of executive ciemencncy.
GERMAN PROTEST STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR British Official Wireless (Received November 26, 1.20 p.m.) RUGBY, November 25. A categorical denial is given in British official quarters to the published statement that the German Ambassador (Herr von Ribbentrop) had informed Mr Baldwin that Germany intended to break off diplomatic relations with Russia if Stickling were executed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20586, 27 November 1936, Page 9
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180SENT TO FIRING SQUAD Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20586, 27 November 1936, Page 9
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