Moscow, May 8.
The Supreme Court sentenced M. Kolianikov, the chief metallurgist of the Lena Goldfields Ca. and Muromtzey, the legal adviser of the coneessionnaires, to ten years imprisonment on charges of destructive activity and espionage, but subse quently reduced the sentences to six *°M. Bashkittzer, who is alleged to have burned the Soviet zine factory, was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to 10 years prisonment.
The dispute between the Lena gold fields and the Soviet concerning the Company's concession in West Siberia has been referred to a Court of Arbitration which opens in Berlin on May 9—Reuter.
Berlin, May 9.
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