Death Sentence For All

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 5

Death Sentence For All

Prosecutor’s Demand At Moscow Trial SPECTATORS APPLAUDE approval. United Pre»i Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MOSCOW, Jan. 28. Applause greeted M. Vishinsky when, at the conclusion of a 300-minute address, he demanded that all the accused in the Moscow trial should be shot. The prisoners heard the demand without emotion. M. Vishinsky, who described the Thotskyites as a gang of highwaymen, concentrated his attack on Piatakov, Sokolnikov, and Radek, whom he described as "a gang of bandits, incendiaries, spies, and forgers.’’ He declared that the entire history of Trotskyist political activity consisted of foul deeds against the working class. M. Vishinsky taunted Radek, as he quoted from a letter written by Radek during the Kameuev and Zinoviev trial: “Radek, you exclaimed that people who betrayed their country must pay with their heads. Do you remember that, Radek? You’re right. The Soviet law knows how to deal with traitors like you.” It is officially announced that M. Trotsky’s son has been accused of industrial wrecking, which is a capital offence, but officiuls are still unwilling to confirm his arrest. THIRD TRIAL MOOTED. Received Friday, 11.10 p.in. LONDON, Jan. 29. The Daily Mail’s Warsaw correspondent says reports from Moscow indicate that a third Soviet trial is foreshadowed in April with M. Bukharin, ex-editor of the Izvestia, General Putna and Bykov, ex-Preraier, as the accused. The arrest of Marshal Tukachevsky, the “brains” of the Soviet army, is also expected.