SOVIET SAVAGERY.
PRINCESS IN JEOPARDY. A HELPER OF THE POOR. 7*IDEATH SENTENCE ANTICIPATED. -- ’■ - jy United Press Assn.—E'ec. Tel.—Gopyrlglit (Received Dec. 4, 9.5 a-m.) LONDON, Dec. 3The Morning Post’s Riga correspondent states that according to information from Leningrad there is a danger of the death sentence being imposed in the case of Princess Sophie Lieven, a sister-in-law of Sir Ivynaston Studd, ex-Lord Mayor of London, who was arrested and is now -in the Lubianka gaol. 17 is stated she occupied a position at a library, and is accused of participation in anti-Soviet conspiracy, also in the wars conducted by the White Guards and she will he Court Martlalled. According to reports from Moscow her anti-revolutionary activities consisted of -holding Sunday schools for the benefit of working class children and reading the Bible. The proscution is believed -to hava been -instigated by the notorious AntiGod Society.
Lady Studd, who is a Russian, said “ she knew her sister has loyally abided by the Bolshevik regime and has devoted herself to helping the poor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17885, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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