RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

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KOLTCHAK’S MINISTERS. -• COPENHAGEN, Julie 15. The Siberian Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced four of Koltchak’s Ministers to death; six servitude for life; and twelve were sentenced to varying periods from five to ten year s .

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' f LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COP VRIOUT] (Received This Day at 15: p.m.) PARIS, June 16. ; ' Krassin interviewed expressed gratitude to ‘the Entente for assisting Sovietism by allowing Poland to wage a useless war. He declared even if tin Bolsheviks defeated Poland they wou 1 not destroy her. Russia could continue ’ the tvar for years, but it wduld onlv involve further privations to foreigners. It was wrong to think he wanted to pursue a propaganda abroad. Time had proved/that the Soviet regime did not need a ivorld revolution. It can exist in the midst of a world organised on a capital basis, Krassin added: “We ' accept this state of things and hold otic • {pj-pign engagements sacked.”

-■> i SIBERIAN SENTENCES. 'V • PETROGRAD, June 16. Reports from Vladivostok state the ' trial of former Koltchak ministers h-s ended. Four were sentenced to death and sixteen to five to ten years hard * labour. All appeal to Lenin and Trotsky. Meanwhile the sentences of exe- , flop have been postponed.