Leningrad, Jan. 17.
M, Gregory Zinovielf and M. Leo Kamenev, leaders of the opposition we the Soviet dictator, M. Joseph Stalin, to-day were sentenced to im: prisonment for ten and five years, Respectively, on charges of counter evolution.
Prison sentences of from five to ten years also were imposed upon fifteen other oppositionists associated with the two leaders in the called "Moscow Centro," fewer than 78 persons, seven women, were sentenced varying degrees of exile 'AIL the property of M, Zinoviett.
Kemenev and their fifteen principal ce-conspirators, was ordered bbe. confiscated, "Those sentenced to exile in concentration camps numbered 49, in-eluding four women while another sentenced to 'The Special Council of the Com missariat of Internal Affairs, which Pronounced the sentences, found that the "Moscow Centre" attempted to organize @ counter-revolution against the Communist Party, with the ob-Ject_of overthrowing' the.power of Stalin and those at the head of the Soviet Government.
'M, Zinovielf, M. Kamenev and their group, however, were acquitted of having inspired' the assassination recently of M. Sergei Kirov, influential member of the Powerful' Politburo and leader of the Communist Party in Leningrad.
Both leaders, however, were important ce-workers of the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet regime, and the action of the: authorities in sparing their lives was incline with the tradition that no "Old. Bolshevik" has ever been shot.
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