GAOL FOR COMMUNISTS
SENTENCES IN HUNGARY PRISONERS CHEER BOLSHEVISM By Cable.—Press Association.- —Copyright. BUDAPEST, Thursday. Several Communists have been sentenced for treason. Zoltaii Szanto, one of the People’s Commissars, was sentenced to 8J years ’imprisonment and 10 years’ loss of political rights; Etienne Vagt, leader of the Labour left wing, to 4i years’, imprisonment and a similar loss of rights; Costola Kriesel to 4 years ;* Aphce Pohl to 3J years and 30 others to from S months to 21 years. Ten men were acquitted. The prisoners cheered Bolshevism and kept interrupting the judge. An inspector stated in evidence that 11 plots had been unmasked since the Russian Communist, Belakun, had fallen. He was not aware that any prisoners had been tortured. Vagt and his supporters had acted as a screen for the Communist organisation directed by Belakun from Moscow, — A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 13
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142GAOL FOR COMMUNISTS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 13
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