Distinguished Scholar Sent to Gaol for Fifteen Years Prague, Oct. 6, An espionage trial Insting two months ended to-day when Professor Tuka, a distinguished scholar, member of Parliament and leader of the Slovak Home Rule Party, was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labour for allegedly maintaining an espionage bureau on behalf of Hungary. The trial is likely to have a political repercussion, Ten thousand persons, who waited the result of the trial in the streets, made a rush for the court room and had to be dispersed by the police with baton charges.—Reuter,
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