"Moscow, Mar. 1.
The 21 political prisoners, who will go on trial for their lives before the. Military Collegium of the Supreme Court to-morrow on charges ranging from a seventeen-year-old plot to kil M. Josef Stalin and the late M. Lenin to attempts to overthrow the Soviet Government in several provinces, were expected to-day to confirm alleged confessions made during their recent imprisonment, The conviction of other political leaders during the purge of 1937 was also based on alleged confessions made by them following their ar-tests, Observers here believed the defendants could scarcely escape the fete of their predecessors. Death sentences were expected to be imposed in most cases.—United Press.
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