SABOTAGE CASE
GERMAN IN MOSCOW Carrying Out Death Sentence AMBASSADOR’S APPEALS r ßy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] MOSCOW, Nov. 23. An announcement that the death sentence has been carried out on the German mining enI gineer Strickiing and his associates is expected hourly. The German Ambassador again visited the Foreign Office this j afternoon and again appealed for I the life of Strickiing, urging that the sentence be commuted to penal servitude. A German mining engineer, Strickiing, pleaded guilty of sabotage, and eight of those accused with him, were sentenced to be shot. Strickiing further confessed that he had kept the German Consul at. Novo Slbirsk informed concerning sabotage and received instructions from him. He added that German secret police ordered him to collaborate with Trotskyists in connection with sabotage. Strickiing was the first foreigner sentenced to death by a Soviet Court. FURIOUS ATTACKS GERMAN PRESS ARTICLES RUSSIA DENOUNCED BERLIN, Nov. 23. The Press furiously attacks the sentence passed on Stickling. An official announcement in the Volkischer Beobachter says: "Spain is no longer the battlefield of the civil war, but the scene of the Russian offensive against the world."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 7
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188SABOTAGE CASE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 7
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