PURGE IN RUSSIA
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ALLEGED SABOTAGE MORE DEATH BENTENCEB TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AFFECTED United Tress A*=n.—nec. tci. Copyright (Received Fei>. 12, 1. 45 p.m.) MOSCOW, Feb. 11 Death sentences passed to-day include six transport workers for sabotaging the Leningrad trolleybus system, causing a bus to fall into a river and drowning a number of passengers. •Iso five residents of the Crimea, including two women, one of whom is Commissar for Social Security, Alexandra Zumbilova. is charged with the embezzlement of 500,000 roubles for the support of husband and her ex-husband, his wife and eight other accomplices were sentenced from one to eight years' imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 8
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105PURGE IN RUSSIA Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 8
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