PRISONERS CONDEMNED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9

PRISONERS CONDEMNED

JBUT APPEAL SUCCEEDS

SENTENCES COMMUTED

United Tress Association—By Electric TeleBrapli—Copyright. (Received Sth December, noon.) MOSCOW, Sth December. At the- close of the trial of the Bussian professors and engineers charged ■with conspiring against the Soviet, it was announced that Bamzin, Larichev, Charnovsky, KalinikofE and Pcdotov were sentenced to death, and Kuprianov, Oehkin, and Sitnin to ten years' penal servitude in addition to the deprivation of their property. Later, it was stated by the Court that the professors would be executed privately and that all the condemned prisoners would be shot within three days unless they succeeded in their appeal to the Central Executive Committee. Subsequently an announcement was made that the Soviet Central Executive had commuted the death sentences on Bamzin, Larichev, Charnovsky, Kalinikoff, and Pedotov to ten years' imprisonment; and had reduced the sentences of the others to eight years' imprisonment. The greatest excitement marked the close of the trial, and the previous sentences of death were greeted with continuous applause. The excited Court crowd apparently expected the prisoners ib be shot the same night. Meetings wore held in the chief Soviet centres during the week-end, and orators harangued the crowds, promising that the Government would teach the foreign Governments that it 'is futile to plot with internal enemies of the Soviet.