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“DEMONSTRATION TRIALS.”.
HOW THE LAW WORKS IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
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HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, APRIL 18th, 1931.
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This picture shows a dramatic moment during Soviet Russia's unique treason trial. held In the ballroomy of a club ance used by Russian nobles. Leaf Ramzio, young engineer and one the defendanta, is shown at the left as he gives his testimony before a
phone,
radio micro-
The author the article, Apam top were red without permisalonjald to the customs of the people
of 1; mulsp; or wrongly classified inus represented. Lobar Styring, in an Auction was man who los gut zu and yours H finns, casting all parts of the country.
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Penalties ILT Variable,
I was de to reduce their wager.
infest to hold a "propaganda trin!"
1 coming to elur From this to arquaint The workers with their Few in our wedern worki van rights, A series of such trials, that penalties and cases are vari able. Couria are and conceived of understand Soviet taw courts.
widely derriisel, was held this the deamatle trial recently two days, not in a law cutrt, but as outside and shove the political concluded 1 Mascon icon's un
in the biggest hall of the Labor life of the lasul bout as part of it.
State gover not, as with example. But during the years Temple; cuts and penalties were used into a balure of Tunction have spent in Rassin, 1 live seen gemine, but the form was that of
Budwepa legislative, executive and many cases list as alten 14 our drama. Anglo-Saxon blogge Jasper- knowledge of the Sabar code and Judicial. The legislative power is dence, nad which drew light on the penalties for various eneselected, and then appoints the ad- the ychology anderk im
I remember a propaganda trial imatrative and judicial power.
The appointedl Together with held in a Turkestan village
the murder. All's wife hul un judge, expreted to know law, are who perke sorar- and writed and
wentwn conjudges, preached why the Tsik Central Executive, freedom and navelling to her what the sathe Tuneling
Inap HIS These are chreven from Committee s promptly commated Piphours. The outraged the five death sentences to prison and, with the aid and advice of and nominated by the purial or
friends, had
stain er. All ad-ganizations of the vicinity; they berins.
limited time, as mittel his art; he ploried in det for a
back. reglur his hennar. The point to "people's conviene." In
these judges. "Will it be prive in entert was whether such wardd districts
inas even be literate, their know ner Five Year Plan more to kill killing was "erine."
bedre of hal backwardness modi. these anen or to let them live? S'in we'rengthen megale in our
diiealt task
thi
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The puzzle to most people was why these men contrased.
To Strengthen Morate, Ikaw the problem The Tory discussed was this:
Fratura me lay
terror
for
A our
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Rename Village after Trini, Five thousand practatile attended (ying the strietre demands of the All there murel arrits country's the "demonstration trial" held in jude.
Delegations na dreison; otherwise an appeal iN open air,
neigh-taken.
oor by efe 1
It was the and not any women and youth from
olouring villages came with pre-
the aleidest cessions to demand
pledges Piven, og
absolute justice," that
their fates
Soviet law in affectel ned by The Bass of the west. with it ideal, of justice as see almalute elation between man and crime, by the tradition of the but al past, where mustad is always per ronal and conditional,
tally
death
CHRUN,
"TRAGIC FARCE."
Woman M.P. Wants Law Altered.
In the midst of a hum-drum) session of the Inuse of Commons recently, the atmosphere and set- a criminal court, ting of
when sentence of death was about to del pronounced upon a person con- victed of murder, was suddenly brought into the chamber.
M. 1's, who were walking about, down. Men who were sented)
the took their feet down from desks in front of them. Members who were gossipping suddenly sat silent and rigid.
In their mind's eye they saw a dun, drear court room. They saw! the trial judge put a flåt piece of black cloth on his wig. They Beard him in trembling accents) sentence the criminal in the dock
to be taken thence and hanged! by the nerk until you are deast and may
God have merey on your!
The member of Parliament who wrought this magic in the House) of Commons was Miss EdRh Pie-' ton-Turbereill, a tall, distinguish-| ed, middle-aged woman, Roberivį garbed in black, who in quiet; Lones, withrat sensationalism, but,] nevertheless, in a voice charged! with deep emotion, was pleading for a favourable hearing for a billi she had just introduced,
A Decendant of Aristernis,
Mins Picton-Turbervill is the! descendant of an old aristocratie! family, which dates back to one of. the knights who accompanied Wil.. Ham the Conqueror, She is the.
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HEAVY SNOWFALL
IN LONDON.
Our picture illustrates the Edinburgh express leaving King's Cross Station after a heavy snow- fall, the heaviest in London in March for many years. In less than two hours snow fell to a depth
(Times copyright). of ever wa Incles,
incracy are seated.
But and at the event that this was found to bill. She read out a list of mem- all. She is the Labour M. 1. forte correct, the death sentence; hers of all parties. The Speaker
called for "ayes." There was the Wrekin division.
would not be passed at all
Tervit was
איזון
in force
.
its
Would End Grim Farce, She begged the members to con- rousing thunder of them, Lloyd- The object of Miss Picton-Tar-sider the effect of a death sentence George being heard above all the
to prevent
The bill further not only upon the mother, but rest. There was a call for the British ** horrible
Lo upon the unburn, but living child, "No." Deep silence.
well ot
way court room. Herbil prohibits the The shock to the mother might Was passing of the death sentence upon welt prove to be disastrous to the passage.
The woman who achieved th': whole life. She asked
child and affert its expectant mothers, members to take notice that the Judges and lawyers hail for years personal triumph has been doing She began by bill did and relieve them any regarded the duty impossit upon good all her life. sentence of imprisonment they them with great disfavour. She throwing herself into social work Not Su Many Lawyers,
might be called upon to endure mentioned a humane judge, who on the Vale of Glamorgan railway Lawyers are match tres used in
daughter of the late Colonel 3. Pie-¦ The law already
se hated his task, that he begged to improve the condition of the Ali was executed; bist sovint erts than with us.
For ten years she was of expre-
the woman got to listen to a word avvies. "Th imprisoned. nl neemplices
ton-Turbervill of Enemy Priory, hibited the execution the simpler cases, such some of
The practice was, Glamorgan, and granddaughter of tant mothers, villgeers then indicated their as a worker's complaint against panval of the sentence by voting his employer, no lawyer is per Sir Grenville Temple. Baronet, as stated, to give a reprieve and no of the sentence and mumbled it in National Vice President of the Y. rename their village after the murmuted: the judge questions bath Reared in luxury, the natural in- woman thus caught in the toils of such a manner that none could M. C. A. Then for six years she ference world the that she was the law had been exeruled for 70 Buderstand what he was saying, did social work in India and was In Scotland, the death sentence secretary of the Student Movement in token of dered woman,
the parties. In other simple
is sourthern India, She organized speaking from the Tory benches years, conversion to woman's freedom the fact that a mat needs a inw
the war-time appeal of the Y. M. where most of the old landed aris But as he law stood, no matter had not been passed upon an ex- Criminal codes exist, of emerse,
ver offen prejudices his case,
Fireum pertant muther for 150 years.
C. A. in Great Britain and raised extenuating the in the Soviet Union, and even *ack," ; add a Soviet indre to me
in complicated cases, the
Her Speech Unopposed.
She joined the over £259,000, stances, nor how strong the jury's) later, "what trouble you cause us wee, "is att ta he guided by pre- training in law. Hat the inter- Follen appoints a lawyer,
merry, the Miss Meton-Turbervi!l suddenly Labmir party several years ago, all whenever you He. Your story recommendation to redents, but rather through forms pretation of criminal coils
As A#
west all right till you introduced | judge had no option but to pass stopped speaking. No one rose to She is the author of a number of of law to latile a growing soiety, pens on the ennerete ease.
The Speaker asked for books, mainly dealing with reli fie, and then we had to get wit- the dreadful death sentence. couzidering the just only as it ex ignorant peasant might be en they are vers conunen.
for acts which lays his cards on the table most
nesses to prove what you now ad- was muly after this was done, that the names of those who backed thegious subjects. plains the untium nt of which; pletely exeusd
mit The bandit looked annoyed, the woman Bail the opportunity of) The present has risen, and con would læring grave penalties if informally, and invites the arensel
wax then shrugged and fold the whole staling she
an expciant sidering the 31st only as performed by an educated Moscow; fo de Eltewiw, I are saw
Pundits on trial in (ch, lefore an A persant
tale. All 30 told their stories at mother. Her bill gave the mother 1 native for foreig inter interested audience
sume tength-and six of them the opportunity of stating the fact dreuse of gene
local "Kirghiz" whom the men and
were shot.
before sentence was passed.. The judge an raided and robbed gets only grievance and
wata Russian worker. mussol idmuse open at the neck; the two co-lges were a Kirghiz #Kirghiz Wamisti Wenver. The tril was utterly
material for the future we intend
Communist.
to errafe." Sach it. The une might, shout tional" view of law and justler invention Soviet curls,
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So Dies do not ask: "What are, apologetic explanation; an the exact acts of the defendant į gineer using one-tenth
where do they A in our words, gets arrested, criminal rodo," but "Given this Still more, the Soviet judges are] Prasant and situation, what is the best way out | expected be study, not only Soviet with belt to society?" This is law, but German. French an informal,
"Now, really." said the jailge, the derisinn that underlies a Angle-Saxon law as well, as theory of Soviet jurisprudence. It, guide in their, acts in cases involv-! "you, an experienend basdit,
met nations. Pret us to believe that you underlies also the methon) of "de- ing foreigners of these
Book monstration trials," so startling to Not as final law, leut as "showing this man on the road and us of the west,
how the
him along as a well, a sort of man was brought Many Propaganda Trials, This indientes how personal and, witness to your raid. We know Sueli “démonstration trials,“ or relative justire is experted to us. that on such raids you do "propaganda- Trials" as they are
facilitate explanations intake, caffel, orear even in quite minor court, the Jewish towns have members. You ask us to believe
German that you took this stranger" cases remember a city where courts in Yiddish, the
56 The tour was that of an expostu violations of the labour code grow settlements in German: over frequent. Men were worked over languages are used to-day in lating teacher. time without special recompense; Soviet law-courts, and attention ist
Your even
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nut weaker
"You see," remarked the judge
bow
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The impressive' church of St.jcenturies until it was destroyed John Lateran, with its adjacent again, this time by fire, Aunther. palace, is one of the sights of church was bufft, int it
burned.
almo
Was
The prestent structure
Rome,
It was once the church of the! Popes and here they were former-ereeted in 1659 and the front was ly crowned. Here, also, Pope added in the 18th century. Plus X and Premier Masmolini, Many fue paintings and inter- in 1929, signed the accord settlingesting memorials decorate the h long-standing difference between terlor of the church. Two am the church and the Italian Govern.seums, chiefly of senture, are to
be found in the palace. ment,
The famous "Scala Santa," the
In its early history the church was most honoured of all Chris Sacred Steps, which are suld to be thu churches and became a trea- those up which Christ walked in sure house. But when the Vandals the house of Pilate, are near the pillaged Rome, the Lateran Just church. Nu fout is allowed to Pilerims sometinies its sacred vessels of gold and touch them. silver.
nscend them on their kneGA, An earthquake wrecked the St. John Lateran is located on church in 986, but it was auon re- the opposite side of the city from constructed and stood for four St. Peter's and the Vatican.
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