TORTURING PRISONERS
RUSSIAN POLICE TRIAL TOWN HELD IN TERROR By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright , Reed. 10.26 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Supreme Tribunal of the Ukraine has begun the trial of six of the highest police officials and a number of the rank and file in the town of Chuguieff, in the Donetz region, for alleged torturing of prisoners with slow strangulation and pulling out of hair, in which the police chief personally participated. TT is also alleged that they terrorised A ChuguiefTs population of 13,000 instead of protecting them. The Third International has opened a special session to discuss plans to create revolutionary organisations in Latin America to combat the PanAmerican Federation of Labour.
The Communist Party has admitted two important Trotskyites. both abjuring further support to the opposition. They are M. Krestinsky, exAmbassador to Berlin and Canton, and M. Offovsenky, who was prominent in the revolution in 1917. The expulsions of humbler followers of Trotsky continue. —Times Cables.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 1
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