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ZINOVIfiFF AND KAMENEFF SOVIET JUSTICE. SENTENCED WITHOUT TRIAL. « nl ted p/ess Assize. Tel. Copyrrgnt. (Received Dec. 31, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Deo. 30. The Daily Express’ Warsaw corre?- ' ' retly taffn at Moscow to th* railway station where a freight ' ’ train* was waiting to convey them to GX They were 'sentenced to banishment to S&UM island in t he p White.S^ where the temperature seldom rises above zero. . a The sentences were passed at a secret session, without trial b)' Stalin •' anc i the Commissar for the Interior. Doubtless foreign opinion caused Stalin to flinch at the death sentence. The station was closed while the prisoners were entrained in separate UL Zinovicff *was farewelled ..by his family and was allowed to take a large bundle of books. . , , The train journey will take eight dnvs and eight nights, and thereafter six days 'with horse sledges. Kamcncff appeared to be happy and astonished to have escaped the deaU sentence, but as Zinovieff is m an advanced state of tuberculosis his sentence of exile is regarded as equivalent to death. z >No 'Official announcement or tne sentences has- yet been made in Russia. -
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 8
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