RUSSIA’S NEW LAW
TREASON TO THE FATHERLAND SEVERE PUNISHMENT PROVIDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RIGA, June 10. (Received June 11, at 11.45 a.m.) . ‘ Pravda ’ expounds the new law against treason. It includes a provision that Russians fleeing _ from the country will be shot as traitors or at least condemned to ten years’ forced labour, while the nearest relatives over eighteen years of age will be degraded in status and banished to remotest Siberia, even if innocent of complicity in the treason, because defence of the fatherland is the highest law of life, ami traitors to it must be destroyed.”—London ‘Times’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 21743, 11 June 1934, Page 9
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100RUSSIA’S NEW LAW Evening Star, Issue 21743, 11 June 1934, Page 9
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