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UNDER SOVIET REGIME. “SPIES AND WRECKERS.” , CAMPAIGN INTENSIFIED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.) Received August 7, 12.15 p.m. MOSCOW, Aug. G. Eighteen Trotskyist spies, 'terrorists and wreckers have been iound guilty by a military court of setting fire to municipal buildings and wrecking railways. Tho campaign against the Jews, Christians and Mohammedans has been intensified owing to the approach ol the elections under M. Stalin s new constitution. Charges of espionage are being levelled against them. The Izvestia, under the headline, “Spies in priests’ robes,” says the sects are riddled by spits.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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