SENTENCES FOR TREASON.
GAOL FOR COMMUNISTS in cau-nna ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOHT.) ucm UlU» »«> *•«• AKD S,rK CABLE.) BUDAPEST, November 10. i number of Communists were sentawed for treason as follows: —Zoltan feanto, of the People's Commissary, tight and a half years' imprisonment and ten years' loss of political rights; Etii'iine Vagt, leader of the Labour Jeft ring, four and a half years' imprisonment and ten years' loss of political rights; Costola Kriessel, four years' imprisonment; and Aphee Pohl, three ana a half years' imprisonment. Thirty others were sentenced to termi of from eight months to two and a half years' imprisonment. Ten others cere acquitted. The prisoners cheered Bolshevism ami interrupted the Judge. An inspector gave evidence that tleren plots had been unmasked since Bela Kun fell. He was unaware of any torturing of prisoners. Vagt and his supporters acted as a arrten for a Communist organisation, directed by Bela Kun from Moscow.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 17
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150SENTENCES FOR TREASON. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 17
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