Moscow, Mar. 7.
The reason why Bolshevik leaders are attaching such great importance io the present trial and why contes-sions are sought on political and especially economic sabotage has now been revealed by an editorial in the official party organ, "Pravda."
"Now, after these confessions of mean sabotages," the editorial states, "the Soviet comrade at last knows why his wages have so many times been withheld from him, now at last one knows why some territories of the Soviet Union have often for days remained without bread, why in the state stores one can buy felt boots only in summer and sandals only in winter, now everyone knows why the supply of salt, sugar and fat is so very insuffcient."—Trans-Ocean.
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