COOKS ARRESTED
FILTHY RESTAURANTS IN MOSCOW. /.
DEATH AND GAOL SENTENCES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).“
LONDON, July 12
The “Times” Riga correspondent says: What the Soviet press'describes as intolerably filthy conditions-- in the industrial kitchens, and the inedibility of the food served in > the workers’ restaurants in Moscow have resulted in five ‘cook wreckers” being sentenced to death, andr seven being imprisoned for term,? of from eighteen months to eight years. Sentences were imposed after, a demonstrative four-days’ trial. These victims are apparently scapegoats who hav been .selected with a suitable- nonproletari'an origin, including Mikhali Odilon, an ez-Czarist officer and landowner. He was sentenced to death, and his two sons were imprisoned. Witnesses testified soups and, other dishes regularly contined. quantities of rubbish, nails, hair and glass. The Court declaimed that it had been proved that the accused mixed these in the- food for the purpose of discrediting the Soviet, and pf undermining the state industry....,:.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 5
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