RUSSIAN EXECUTORS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 6

RUSSIAN EXECUTORS

. ' ) '■■ ■ V at- 1 ON CONSPIRACY-' CHARGES. iUnited Press Association— By EleCtrio Telegraph—Copyright): MOSCOW, October 25. The Russian Cheka on Thursday, after secret trials, executed, fifty-one persons, including- forty ringleaders, for alleged conspiracies to overthrow the Soviets throughout the country. The Cheka also sentenced fifty persons to long terms of imprisonment. This is part of a national clean up. The most sensational charges were made against a religious sect with its headquarters in the cliffs overlooking the Black Sea, near Sochi wliere twelve persons were executed, including the Mother Superior of an Iberian Monastery; and, in addition, twenty wealthy peasants, all of them Socialists, were shot at Krasnodra, and eleven peasants were shot at Somara for murderI ing the Commissaries who were organisin'; a grain levy on the peasantry. FURTHER PARTICULARS. ; LONDON, October 26. The Daily New’s. Moscow correspond. Jit -rays-.“a Forty-five persons were executed - 'by the Ogpu. They include Mavfs Makaroskia, who formerly was the Mother Superior of the Iverski Convent, and who was intimate at the Imperial Court; and also Gregorovitch and other members of a religious sect called the “Praise His Name.” They lived in Caucasus Mountains;'under monastic rules. The sect was managed by Gregoryovitch, ■assisted by a Council- of Twelve, apparently in memory of the Twelve Apostles and the Master. All tliir-. teen of these were shot.

The Ogpu alleges that Gregoryovitch confessed that the monastery headquarters was a vast organisation for collecting arms for a rising. REVOLUTION CELEBRATIONS. LONDON, Oct. 26. i There is a delegation of “Thirtysix friends of Soviet Russia” going to Russia to participate in the Revolu-1 tion celebrations on November 7th.! They include a London bus conductor, j a Yorkshire textile worker, and several. miners and engineers.