SOVIET LAW.
STATE TRIALS IN RUSSIA. A number of State trials are proceeding in Russia, mainly malversation. The most prominent, perhaps, is taking place in -Leningrad, where 123 port officials and their accomplices are accused of corruption. In Moscow there are 80 trials. Among those on trial are many engineers accused of appropriating State property valued at millions of gold roubles. Seven officials in the Moscow State warehouse have, it is officially announced, been shot after trial, reports “The Times. ’’ Six high officials of the State butter trust have
been condemned to death, for selling 200 tons of butter to private Moscow traders.
It is announced that a trial is to be held at Chernigoff, where all the members of the “agricultural community," who had been working for many years on Tolstoyan lines, are accused of counter-revolution, chiefly because they neglected to sing the International and to celebrate the anniversary of the October revolution’s, and because they did not welcome the Komsomoltsi (the League of Communist Youth), read the Bible daily, did not subscribe to tho Soviet newspapers, and taught their children the Holy Scriptures. A tribunal has confirmed the death sentence upon Fuehin, who was condemned at Zhitomir for espionage in favour of Poland.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 25 February 1926, Page 2
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