Fined $200 or 100 Days 1n Jail for Attack on Soviet Newspaperman Reported to be the leader of a local White Russian Fascist organization, N. I. Karganoff was sentenced to a fine of $200 or one hundred days in gaol by the First Special District Court yesterday morning. He was charged with having assaulted Mr. N. Svetlov, 29-year old Soviet newspapermen, who also asked for $12,500 damages; these were dismissed In reply to questions by the Court. Karganoff admitted the assault, saying that Mr. Svetlov had called him a "White Russian robber." He told the Court the assault was not murderous in intent.
Mr. Svetlov, however, told the Court that the real reason for the attack was due to the fact that he was a pro-Soviet Russian and Kargan off was pro-Japanese and anti-Soviet. Mr. Svetlov, who said he was taking out Soviet papers, denied having ever spoken to Karganoff.
The injuries-he suffered as a result of the assault, he went on, caused him to resign his position on the editorial staff of a local Russian newspaper.
Det-Sgt A. E. Taylor said that Karganoff attacked Mr. Svetlov on the night of September 5 on Yates Road. Mr. Svetlov, he went on, was at one time connected with three newspapers, two of which were recently suspended by the Council. The two papers now suspended carried articles on certain occasions which attacked Karganoff and his pro-Fascist leanings,
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