The Archive · 1938

Kremlin Refuses Clemency Pleas

Condemned Soviet Leaders to Be Executed Moscow, Mar. 15.

The appeals of M. Yagoda, former head of the Ogpu, M. Bukharin, former editor of "Izvestia" and former President of the Comintern, and M.

Rykov, former Premier of the U.S.S.R, and the fourteen others condemned to death in Moscow's latest treason trial have been rejected. They are expected to be shot to-night. The fate of M.

Rosengoltz, Commissar for Foreign Trade, still remains uncertain.

The three who escaped the death sentence are: Rakovsky, former Soviet Ambassador to London, who received the sentence of 20 years imleading heart given a sentence of 2 years; and Bessanov, who was given fifteen years imprisonment.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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