Moscow, Nov. 25.
The death sentence imposed Herr E, M. Stickling, alleged Ger~ man terrorist and espionage agent, was to-day commuted to ten years imprisonment, it was officially announced here. Herr Stickling was to have been executed to-day.
Six of the eight Russians sentenced to death with the German engineer were put to death to-day, while the remaining two received commutation of sentence to ten. years' im=
Commutation of Herr Stlekting death sentence was not unexpected here in view of the vigorous protests the German Government presented to Soviet officials in connection with the detention and arrest of the German engineer.
The six men who were shot were found guilty. of being the main organizers and most. active partie in the criminal wrecking, ivetsionist activities of the counter revolutionary group at the Kererovo Mine, "Their appeal for clemency was rejected Soviet officials asserted thut. Herr Stickling confessed that he conferred with a German secret service agent several months ayo in Moscow, and that he planned to sabotage a" coal mine—United Press, Another Mass Tr Warsaw, Nov A mass trial of forty forctgn citizens, who have been" arrested in the Soviet Union recently, will begin early in December, according to. a Moscow message " received here to-day.
believed that the majority of the German citizens will probably be expelled from Soviet Russia. Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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