(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The trial of the ringleaders in the attack on the Jewish colony Alexejewka, White Russia, was concluded yesterday in Rogatschow.
The leader of the hooligan band was sentenced to ten years imprisonment at hard labor. The chairman of the local town Soviet, as well as two members of the militia were sentenced to one year imprisonment for failure to take action in defense of the Jewish colonists.
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