Moscow, Dec. 6, Following the murder on' December 1 of M. Serge! Kirov, a member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee, 66 persons, one a woman, "have been executed for counter-revolutionary activities. Besides these executions, countless arrests have been made on a charge of "organizing terroristic acts against officials of the Soviet government.
Of the 68 who were executed today, 37 had been sentenced to death December 1, by the court in Len~ Ingrad sitting in camera, on a charge of organizing acts of terrorism against officials.
The 29 others wore sentenced to death by the Supreme Military Court at Moscow on December 1 on similar charges.
The property of the executed men was confiscated. Five others, who fare accused of planning terroristic sets, are now being examined—Ret Moscow, Dec. 6.
Bearing the urn containing the ashes of the assassinated Bolshevist leader, M. Kirov, Comrades Stalin, s Molotov, Voroshilov and Yenukide
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