DICTATOR ON TRIAL.
RUTHLEBB PROCEEDINGS. AN OPPONENT MURDERED. ESKIMOS STARVED TO DEATH. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 18, 11.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, May 17. Judge Vyshinski, who conducted the Metropolitan Vickers investigation, presided at the Supreme Court trial of I. D. Simenchuk, director of the polar station on Wrangel Island, who allegedly created a dictatorship, illtreating the scientific staff and the local population. When the medical officer, Dr. Wulfson, protested he received a fictitious emergency call and was murdered en route by Simenchuk’s assistant. Simenchuk also attempted to starve Mrs Mulfson, and denied the Eskimos the right to hunt or to be fed from the station’s warehouse, and several died. Mr Otto Schmidt, chief of the North Sea route administration, on learning of the situation, despatched an investigator, who put an end to the abuses.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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136DICTATOR ON TRIAL. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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