DICTATOR ON TRIAL.
DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS. A TERRIBLE FIVE YEARS. COOK MAD WITH FIRE MANIA. United Presa Assn.—£lec. Tel. Copyright MOSCOW, May 18. Presiding at the trial ol‘ 1. U. Simcnchuk, director of the Polar station on Wrangei Island, on charges of illtreating the staff and the local population, is M. Vyshinsky, who conducted Ihe prosecution’s ease at the Historic trial of live English employees of Metro-Vickers in 1933, which resulted in a temporary breach of all trade relations between Britain and Soviet Russia. The Soviet press emphasises the deplorable conditions at Wrangei Inland, where the colony consisted of 14 Russians and 70 Eskimos.
The icebreaker Krassin, which repatriated certain of the inhabitants who were suffering from illness, brought Simenchuk to the island in 1934, being Ihe first ship to arrive for five years. Those despatched each summer were never able to reach the island, greatly to the disheartenment of the colonists, who saw them in the offing. A cook named Petrik went mnd with fire mania during the terrible five years, and menaced ihe entire colony, trying to set fire to everything.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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182DICTATOR ON TRIAL. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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