CHARGE OF SABOTAGE
WIRELESS OPERATOR CONVICTED TWENTY YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT INDIFFERENCE TO DUTY (United Press Assn.--Elec. Tel. Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 27. Mikhail Yosnissensky was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Makliail Yosnissensky, chief wireless operator at the Arctic station in Tranquility Bay was accused of sabotaging polar communications and thus hampering Sigismund Levanevsky’s llight to America in 1937. Yosnissensky said that hardship and loneliness had led to his degeneration and indifference to duty. He had shut off the wireless and failed to transmit important messages from Levanevsky. He had suppressed Moscow’s order for his dismissal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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93CHARGE OF SABOTAGE Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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