FIFTY-THREE FOR TRIAL
SABOTAGE PLOT CHARGE RUSSIAN MINES CASE (United P. A. —By Telegraph — Copyright.) Times Cable. LONDON, Tuesday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says the preliminary legal proceedings in connection with the alleged sabotage plot at Donetz, in the Don region, have been concluded. Fifty-three persons will be tried, including a German engineer, two German fitters, five former owners and partners in the mines, 37 Russian engineers and eight technical experts. Five German engineers, who had gone to Russia to superintend the erection of a new turbine plant, were arrested by the Cheka. They spent days in filthy prisons, crawling with vermin and scrambling cockroaches, and so noisome and dreadful as to shake the nerves of the strongest man. Once a prisoner in a cell below went mad, and his screams sounded through the place; another in a cell next door had a fit. At last, one of the men, Herr Goldstein, was able to show that the intercepted letter that had caused his arrest was a harmless technical communication from one of his colleagues, and the charges had to be dropped. The authorities then showed great friendliness, and expedited the journey to Germany.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 9
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